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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2022-49228" idYear: 2022 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-02-26T01:55:56.682Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T18:55:37.608Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:49.724Z" 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-2022-49228" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49228.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49228" title: "bpf: Fix a btf decl_tag bug when tagging a function" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbpf: Fix a btf decl_tag bug when tagging a function\n\nsyzbot reported a btf decl_tag bug with stack trace below:\n\n general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000000: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN\n KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007]\n CPU: 0 PID: 3592 Comm: syz-executor914 Not tainted 5.16.0-syzkaller-11424-gb7892f7d5cb2 #0\n Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011\n RIP: 0010:btf_type_vlen include/linux/btf.h:231 [inline]\n RIP: 0010:btf_decl_tag_resolve+0x83e/0xaa0 kernel/bpf/btf.c:3910\n ...\n Call Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n btf_resolve+0x251/0x1020 kernel/bpf/btf.c:4198\n btf_check_all_types kernel/bpf/btf.c:4239 [inline]\n btf_parse_type_sec kernel/bpf/btf.c:4280 [inline]\n btf_parse kernel/bpf/btf.c:4513 [inline]\n btf_new_fd+0x19fe/0x2370 kernel/bpf/btf.c:6047\n bpf_btf_load kernel/bpf/syscall.c:4039 [inline]\n __sys_bpf+0x1cbb/0x5970 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:4679\n __do_sys_bpf kernel/bpf/syscall.c:4738 [inline]\n __se_sys_bpf kernel/bpf/syscall.c:4736 [inline]\n __x64_sys_bpf+0x75/0xb0 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:4736\n do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]\n do_syscall_64+0x35/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae\n\nThe kasan error is triggered with an illegal BTF like below:\n type 0: void\n type 1: int\n type 2: decl_tag to func type 3\n type 3: func to func_proto type 8\nThe total number of types is 4 and the type 3 is illegal\nsince its func_proto type is out of range.\n\nCurrently, the target type of decl_tag can be struct/union, var or func.\nBoth struct/union and var implemented their own 'resolve' callback functions\nand hence handled properly in kernel.\nBut func type doesn't have 'resolve' callback function. When\nbtf_decl_tag_resolve() tries to check func type, it tries to get\nvlen of its func_proto type, which triggered the above kasan error.\n\nTo fix the issue, btf_decl_tag_resolve() needs to do btf_func_check()\nbefore trying to accessing func_proto type.\nIn the current implementation, func type is checked with\nbtf_func_check() in the main checking function btf_check_all_types().\nTo fix the above kasan issue, let us implement 'resolve' callback\nfunc type properly. The 'resolve' callback will be also called\nin btf_check_all_types() for func types." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"b5ea834dde6b6e7f75e51d5f66dac8cd7c97b5ef","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a3bcd2110c087bc62e90fddd4a93237b049d6e68"},{"version":"b5ea834dde6b6e7f75e51d5f66dac8cd7c97b5ef","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"796d5666f6422ddadc938fb888044fcc16f2dbe3"},{"version":"b5ea834dde6b6e7f75e51d5f66dac8cd7c97b5ef","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d7e7b42f4f956f2c68ad8cda87d750093dbba737"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.16","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.16"},{"version":"5.16.19","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.16.*"},{"version":"5.17.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.17.*"},{"version":"5.18","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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