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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2022-48847" idYear: 2022 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-07-16T12:25:15.804Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-05T08:52:37.538Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:45.230Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-48847" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-48847.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-48847" title: "watch_queue: Fix filter limit check" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwatch_queue: Fix filter limit check\n\nIn watch_queue_set_filter(), there are a couple of places where we check\nthat the filter type value does not exceed what the type_filter bitmap\ncan hold. One place calculates the number of bits by:\n\n if (tf[i].type \u003e= sizeof(wfilter-\u003etype_filter) * 8)\n\nwhich is fine, but the second does:\n\n if (tf[i].type \u003e= sizeof(wfilter-\u003etype_filter) * BITS_PER_LONG)\n\nwhich is not. This can lead to a couple of out-of-bounds writes due to\na too-large type:\n\n (1) __set_bit() on wfilter-\u003etype_filter\n (2) Writing more elements in wfilter-\u003efilters[] than we allocated.\n\nFix this by just using the proper WATCH_TYPE__NR instead, which is the\nnumber of types we actually know about.\n\nThe bug may cause an oops looking something like:\n\n BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in watch_queue_set_filter+0x659/0x740\n Write of size 4 at addr ffff88800d2c66bc by task watch_queue_oob/611\n ...\n Call Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n dump_stack_lvl+0x45/0x59\n print_address_description.constprop.0+0x1f/0x150\n ...\n kasan_report.cold+0x7f/0x11b\n ...\n watch_queue_set_filter+0x659/0x740\n ...\n __x64_sys_ioctl+0x127/0x190\n do_syscall_64+0x43/0x90\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae\n\n Allocated by task 611:\n kasan_save_stack+0x1e/0x40\n __kasan_kmalloc+0x81/0xa0\n watch_queue_set_filter+0x23a/0x740\n __x64_sys_ioctl+0x127/0x190\n do_syscall_64+0x43/0x90\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae\n\n The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88800d2c66a0\n which belongs to the cache kmalloc-32 of size 32\n The buggy address is located 28 bytes inside of\n 32-byte region [ffff88800d2c66a0, ffff88800d2c66c0)" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"c73be61cede5882f9605a852414db559c0ebedfd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"648895da69ced90ca770fd941c3d9479a9d72c16"},{"version":"c73be61cede5882f9605a852414db559c0ebedfd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1b09f28f70a5046acd64138075ae3f095238b045"},{"version":"c73be61cede5882f9605a852414db559c0ebedfd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b36588ebbcef74583824c08352e75838d6fb4ff2"},{"version":"c73be61cede5882f9605a852414db559c0ebedfd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c993ee0f9f81caf5767a50d1faeba39a0dc82af2"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.8","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.8"},{"version":"5.10.106","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.29","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"5.16.15","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.16.*"},{"version":"5.17","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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