# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-49870"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-05-01T14:10:21.134Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:08:20.102Z"
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-2022-49870"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49870.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49870"
title: "capabilities: fix undefined behavior in bit shift for CAP_TO_MASK"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncapabilities: fix undefined behavior in bit shift for CAP_TO_MASK\n\nShifting signed 32-bit value by 31 bits is undefined, so changing\nsignificant bit to unsigned. The UBSAN warning calltrace like below:\n\nUBSAN: shift-out-of-bounds in security/commoncap.c:1252:2\nleft shift of 1 by 31 places cannot be represented in type 'int'\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n dump_stack_lvl+0x7d/0xa5\n dump_stack+0x15/0x1b\n ubsan_epilogue+0xe/0x4e\n __ubsan_handle_shift_out_of_bounds+0x1e7/0x20c\n cap_task_prctl+0x561/0x6f0\n security_task_prctl+0x5a/0xb0\n __x64_sys_prctl+0x61/0x8f0\n do_syscall_64+0x58/0x80\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd\n \u003c/TASK\u003e"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"e338d263a76af78fe8f38a72131188b58fceb591","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5b79fa628e2ab789e629a83cd211ef9b4c1a593e"},{"version":"e338d263a76af78fe8f38a72131188b58fceb591","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"65b0bc7a0690861812ade523d19f82688ab819dc"},{"version":"e338d263a76af78fe8f38a72131188b58fceb591","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"dbaab08c8677d598244d21afb7818e44e1c5d826"},{"version":"e338d263a76af78fe8f38a72131188b58fceb591","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5661f111a1616ac105ec8cec81bff99b60f847ac"},{"version":"e338d263a76af78fe8f38a72131188b58fceb591","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fcbd2b336834bd24e1d9454ad5737856470c10d7"},{"version":"e338d263a76af78fe8f38a72131188b58fceb591","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"151dc8087b5609e53b069c068e3f3ee100efa586"},{"version":"e338d263a76af78fe8f38a72131188b58fceb591","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"27bdb134c043ff32c459d98f16550d0ffa0b3c34"},{"version":"e338d263a76af78fe8f38a72131188b58fceb591","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"46653972e3ea64f79e7f8ae3aa41a4d3fdb70a13"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.25","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.25"},{"version":"4.9.334","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.9.*"},{"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":"5.10.155","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.79","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.0.9","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.0.*"},{"version":"6.1","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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