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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2022-49264" idYear: 2022 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-02-26T01:56:14.664Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-05T08:54:30.630Z" 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-2022-49264" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49264.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49264" title: "exec: Force single empty string when argv is empty" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nexec: Force single empty string when argv is empty\n\nQuoting[1] Ariadne Conill:\n\n\"In several other operating systems, it is a hard requirement that the\nsecond argument to execve(2) be the name of a program, thus prohibiting\na scenario where argc \u003c 1. POSIX 2017 also recommends this behaviour,\nbut it is not an explicit requirement[2]:\n\n The argument arg0 should point to a filename string that is\n associated with the process being started by one of the exec\n functions.\n...\nInterestingly, Michael Kerrisk opened an issue about this in 2008[3],\nbut there was no consensus to support fixing this issue then.\nHopefully now that CVE-2021-4034 shows practical exploitative use[4]\nof this bug in a shellcode, we can reconsider.\n\nThis issue is being tracked in the KSPP issue tracker[5].\"\n\nWhile the initial code searches[6][7] turned up what appeared to be\nmostly corner case tests, trying to that just reject argv == NULL\n(or an immediately terminated pointer list) quickly started tripping[8]\nexisting userspace programs.\n\nThe next best approach is forcing a single empty string into argv and\nadjusting argc to match. The number of programs depending on argc == 0\nseems a smaller set than those calling execve with a NULL argv.\n\nAccount for the additional stack space in bprm_stack_limits(). Inject an\nempty string when argc == 0 (and set argc = 1). Warn about the case so\nuserspace has some notice about the change:\n\n process './argc0' launched './argc0' with NULL argv: empty string added\n\nAdditionally WARN() and reject NULL argv usage for kernel threads.\n\n[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220127000724.15106-1-ariadne@dereferenced.org/\n[2] https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/exec.html\n[3] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8408\n[4] https://www.qualys.com/2022/01/25/cve-2021-4034/pwnkit.txt\n[5] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/176\n[6] https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=execve%5C+*%5C%28%5B%5E%2C%5D%2B%2C+*NULL&literal=0\n[7] https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=execlp%3F%5Cs*%5C%28%5B%5E%2C%5D%2B%2C%5Cs*NULL&literal=0\n[8] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220131144352.GE16385@xsang-OptiPlex-9020/" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"41f6ea5b9aaa28b740d47ffe995a5013211fdbb0"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"98e0c7c702894987732776736c99b85ade6fba45"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b50fb8dbc8b81aaa126387de428f4c42a7c72a73"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1fe82bfd9e4ce93399d815ca458b58505191c3e8"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"27a6f495b63a1804cc71be45911065db7757a98c"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1290eb4412aa0f0e9f3434b406dc8e255da85f9e"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a8054d3fa5deb84b215d6be1b910a978f3cb840d"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cfbfff8ce5e3d674947581f1eb9af0a1b1807950"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"dcd46d897adb70d63e025f175a00a89797d31a43"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.12"},{"version":"4.9.317","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.9.*"},{"version":"4.14.282","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.14.*"},{"version":"4.19.246","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.197","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.110","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.33","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"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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