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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-49873"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-05-01T14:10:23.128Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:08:23.688Z"
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-2022-49873"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49873.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49873"
title: "bpf: Fix wrong reg type conversion in release_reference()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbpf: Fix wrong reg type conversion in release_reference()\n\nSome helper functions will allocate memory. To avoid memory leaks, the\nverifier requires the eBPF program to release these memories by calling\nthe corresponding helper functions.\n\nWhen a resource is released, all pointer registers corresponding to the\nresource should be invalidated. The verifier use release_references() to\ndo this job, by apply  __mark_reg_unknown() to each relevant register.\n\nIt will give these registers the type of SCALAR_VALUE. A register that\nwill contain a pointer value at runtime, but of type SCALAR_VALUE, which\nmay allow the unprivileged user to get a kernel pointer by storing this\nregister into a map.\n\nUsing __mark_reg_not_init() while NOT allow_ptr_leaks can mitigate this\nproblem."
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