Vulnerability · Published Feb 26, 2025 · Assigned by Linux

CVE-2022-49341bpf, arm64: Clear prog->jited_len along prog->jited

Medium 5.5

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in Linux from Linux. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 21% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS NVD)5.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.3%top 79.2% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf, arm64: Clear prog->jited_len along prog->jited syzbot reported an illegal copy_to_user() attempt from bpf_prog_get_info_by_fd() [1] There was no repro yet on this bug, but I think that commit 0aef499f3172 ("mm/usercopy: Detect vmalloc overruns") is exposing a prior bug in bpf arm64. bpf_prog_get_info_by_fd() looks at prog->jited_len to determine if the JIT image can be copied out to user space. My theory is that syzbot managed to get a prog where prog->jited_len has been set to 43, while prog->bpf_func has ben cleared. It is not clear why copy_to_user(uinsns, NULL, ulen) is triggering this particular warning. I thought find_vma_area(NULL) would not find a vm_struct. As we do not hold vmap_area_lock spinlock, it might be possible that the found vm_struct was garbage. [1] usercopy: Kernel memory exposure attempt detected from vmalloc (offset 792633534417210172, size 43)! kernel BUG at mm/usercopy.c:101! Internal error: Oops - BUG: 0 [#1] PREEMPT SMP Modules linked in: CPU: 0 PID: 25002 Comm: syz-executor.1 Not tainted 5.18.0-syzkaller-10139-g8291eaafed36 #0 Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT) pstate: 60400009 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--) pc : usercopy_abort+0x90/0x94 mm/usercopy.c:101 lr : usercopy_abort+0x90/0x94 mm/usercopy.c:89 sp : ffff80000b773a20 x29: ffff80000b773a30 x28: faff80000b745000 x27: ffff80000b773b48 x26: 0000000000000000 x25: 000000000000002b x24: 0000000000000000 x23: 00000000000000e0 x22: ffff80000b75db67 x21: 0000000000000001 x20: 000000000000002b x19: ffff80000b75db3c x18: 00000000fffffffd x17: 2820636f6c6c616d x16: 76206d6f72662064 x15: 6574636574656420 x14: 74706d6574746120 x13: 2129333420657a69 x12: 73202c3237313031 x11: 3237313434333533 x10: 3336323937207465 x9 : 657275736f707865 x8 : ffff80000a30c550 x7 : ffff80000b773830 x6 : ffff80000b773830 x5 : 0000000000000000 x4 : ffff00007fbbaa10 x3 : 0000000000000000 x2 : 0000000000000000 x1 : f7ff000028fc0000 x0 : 0000000000000064 Call trace: usercopy_abort+0x90/0x94 mm/usercopy.c:89 check_heap_object mm/usercopy.c:186 [inline] __check_object_size mm/usercopy.c:252 [inline] __check_object_size+0x198/0x36c mm/usercopy.c:214 check_object_size include/linux/thread_info.h:199 [inline] check_copy_size include/linux/thread_info.h:235 [inline] copy_to_user include/linux/uaccess.h:159 [inline] bpf_prog_get_info_by_fd.isra.0+0xf14/0xfdc kernel/bpf/syscall.c:3993 bpf_obj_get_info_by_fd+0x12c/0x510 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:4253 __sys_bpf+0x900/0x2150 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:4956 __do_sys_bpf kernel/bpf/syscall.c:5021 [inline] __se_sys_bpf kernel/bpf/syscall.c:5019 [inline] __arm64_sys_bpf+0x28/0x40 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:5019 __invoke_syscall arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:38 [inline] invoke_syscall+0x48/0x114 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:52 el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x44/0xec arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:142 do_el0_svc+0xa0/0xc0 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:206 el0_svc+0x44/0xb0 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:624 el0t_64_sync_handler+0x1ac/0x1b0 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:642 el0t_64_sync+0x198/0x19c arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:581 Code: aa0003e3 d00038c0 91248000 97fff65f (d4210000)

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:12linux5.18.5-1DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49341
Debian:13linux5.18.5-1DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49341
Debian:14linux5.18.5-1DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49341
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux5.15.0-48.54UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49341
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-allwinner-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49341
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws5.15.0-1020.24UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49341
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49341
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49341
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49341
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure5.15.0-1020.25UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49341
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49341
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49341
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49341
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde5.15.0-1024.30.1UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49341
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49341
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49341
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp5.15.0-1018.24UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49341
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49341
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49341
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49341
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gke5.15.0-1016.19UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49341
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gkeop5.15.0-1003.5UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49341
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49341
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49341
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49341
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-ibm5.15.0-1015.17UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49341
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iot-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49341
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iotg5.15.0-1016.21UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49341
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-kvm5.15.0-1018.22UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49341
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency5.15.0-48.54UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49341
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49341
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49341
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49341
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia5.15.0-1007.7UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49341
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49341
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49341
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-5.17no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49341
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.0no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49341
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.1no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49341
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49341
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle5.15.0-1018.23UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49341
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49341
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-raspi5.15.0-1015.17UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49341
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspi-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49341
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49341
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscvno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49341
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49341
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49341
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49341
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49341
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49341

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Linux Linux db496944fdaaf2a67d2f60529f5dc23abf809506 – before aaf61a312af63e1cfe2264c4c5b8cd4ea3626025db496944fdaaf2a67d2f60529f5dc23abf809506 – before e412b3d178ea4bf746f6b8ee086761613704c6bedb496944fdaaf2a67d2f60529f5dc23abf809506 – before 0cf7aaff290cdc4d7cee683d4a18138b0dacac48db496944fdaaf2a67d2f60529f5dc23abf809506 – before 3f4d5e727aeaa610688d46c9f101f78b7f712583db496944fdaaf2a67d2f60529f5dc23abf809506 – before 5c25a3040bc0486c41a7b63a1fb0de7cdb846ad7db496944fdaaf2a67d2f60529f5dc23abf809506 – before 41f7c4f85d402043687e863627a1a84fa867c62ddb496944fdaaf2a67d2f60529f5dc23abf809506 – before 10f3b29c65bb2fe0d47c2945cd0b4087be1c5218
Linux Linux 4.16

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