CVE-2022-49907

HIGH

Linux Kernel <=6.0.7 MDIO Bus Registration Undefined Behavior via Bit Shift

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: mdio: fix undefined behavior in bit shift for __mdiobus_register Shifting signed 32-bit value by 31 bits is undefined, so changing significant bit to unsigned. The UBSAN warning calltrace like below: UBSAN: shift-out-of-bounds in drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c:586:27 left shift of 1 by 31 places cannot be represented in type 'int' Call Trace: <TASK> dump_stack_lvl+0x7d/0xa5 dump_stack+0x15/0x1b ubsan_epilogue+0xe/0x4e __ubsan_handle_shift_out_of_bounds+0x1e7/0x20c __mdiobus_register+0x49d/0x4e0 fixed_mdio_bus_init+0xd8/0x12d do_one_initcall+0x76/0x430 kernel_init_freeable+0x3b3/0x422 kernel_init+0x24/0x1e0 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 </TASK>

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0022
EPSS Percentile 12.3%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (27)
linux/Kernel 2.6.28 - 4.9.333linux
linux/Kernel 4.10.0 - 4.14.299linux
linux/Kernel 4.15.0 - 4.19.265linux
linux/Kernel 4.20.0 - 5.4.224linux
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.78linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.0.8linux
linux/Kernel 5.5.0 - 5.10.154linux
Linux/Linux < 2.6.28
Linux/Linux 2.6.28
Linux/Linux 4.14.299 - 4.14.*
... and 17 more
Published May 01, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026