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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2022-49840" idYear: 2022 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-05-01T14:09:56.233Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:07:47.558Z" 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-2022-49840" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49840.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49840" title: "bpf, test_run: Fix alignment problem in bpf_prog_test_run_skb()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbpf, test_run: Fix alignment problem in bpf_prog_test_run_skb()\n\nWe got a syzkaller problem because of aarch64 alignment fault\nif KFENCE enabled. When the size from user bpf program is an odd\nnumber, like 399, 407, etc, it will cause the struct skb_shared_info's\nunaligned access. As seen below:\n\n BUG: KFENCE: use-after-free read in __skb_clone+0x23c/0x2a0 net/core/skbuff.c:1032\n\n Use-after-free read at 0xffff6254fffac077 (in kfence-#213):\n __lse_atomic_add arch/arm64/include/asm/atomic_lse.h:26 [inline]\n arch_atomic_add arch/arm64/include/asm/atomic.h:28 [inline]\n arch_atomic_inc include/linux/atomic-arch-fallback.h:270 [inline]\n atomic_inc include/asm-generic/atomic-instrumented.h:241 [inline]\n __skb_clone+0x23c/0x2a0 net/core/skbuff.c:1032\n skb_clone+0xf4/0x214 net/core/skbuff.c:1481\n ____bpf_clone_redirect net/core/filter.c:2433 [inline]\n bpf_clone_redirect+0x78/0x1c0 net/core/filter.c:2420\n bpf_prog_d3839dd9068ceb51+0x80/0x330\n bpf_dispatcher_nop_func include/linux/bpf.h:728 [inline]\n bpf_test_run+0x3c0/0x6c0 net/bpf/test_run.c:53\n bpf_prog_test_run_skb+0x638/0xa7c net/bpf/test_run.c:594\n bpf_prog_test_run kernel/bpf/syscall.c:3148 [inline]\n __do_sys_bpf kernel/bpf/syscall.c:4441 [inline]\n __se_sys_bpf+0xad0/0x1634 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:4381\n\n kfence-#213: 0xffff6254fffac000-0xffff6254fffac196, size=407, cache=kmalloc-512\n\n allocated by task 15074 on cpu 0 at 1342.585390s:\n kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:568 [inline]\n kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:675 [inline]\n bpf_test_init.isra.0+0xac/0x290 net/bpf/test_run.c:191\n bpf_prog_test_run_skb+0x11c/0xa7c net/bpf/test_run.c:512\n bpf_prog_test_run kernel/bpf/syscall.c:3148 [inline]\n __do_sys_bpf kernel/bpf/syscall.c:4441 [inline]\n __se_sys_bpf+0xad0/0x1634 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:4381\n __arm64_sys_bpf+0x50/0x60 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:4381\n\nTo fix the problem, we adjust @size so that (@size + @hearoom) is a\nmultiple of SMP_CACHE_BYTES. So we make sure the struct skb_shared_info\nis aligned to a cache line." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1cf1cae963c2e6032aebe1637e995bc2f5d330f4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"047824a730699c6c66df43306b80f700c9dfc2fd"},{"version":"1cf1cae963c2e6032aebe1637e995bc2f5d330f4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"730fb1ef974a13915bc7651364d8b3318891cd70"},{"version":"1cf1cae963c2e6032aebe1637e995bc2f5d330f4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7a704dbfd3735304e261f2787c52fbc7c3884736"},{"version":"1cf1cae963c2e6032aebe1637e995bc2f5d330f4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e60f37a1d379c821c17b08f366412dce9ef3d99f"},{"version":"1cf1cae963c2e6032aebe1637e995bc2f5d330f4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"eaa8edd86514afac9deb9bf9a5053e74f37edf40"},{"version":"1cf1cae963c2e6032aebe1637e995bc2f5d330f4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1b597f2d6a55e9f549989913860ad5170da04964"},{"version":"1cf1cae963c2e6032aebe1637e995bc2f5d330f4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d3fd203f36d46aa29600a72d57a1b61af80e4a25"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.12"},{"version":"4.14.300","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.14.*"},{"version":"4.19.267","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.225","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.156","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.80","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.0.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.0.*"},{"version":"6.1","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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