CVE-2022-2905

Summary

CVECVE-2022-2905
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-09-09 15:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:47:00 UTC
DescriptionAn out-of-bounds memory read flaw was found in the Linux kernel's BPF subsystem in how a user calls the bpf_tail_call function with a key larger than the max_entries of the map. This flaw allows a local user to gain unauthorized access to data.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-125

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel All All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 6.0 rc1 All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 6.0 rc2 All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 6.0 rc3 All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 8.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[PATCH bpf] bpf: Don't use tnum_range on array range checking for poke descriptors - Daniel Borkmann MISC lore.kernel.org
2121800 – (CVE-2022-2905) CVE-2022-2905 kernel: slab-out-of-bound read in bpf MISC bugzilla.redhat.com
[SECURITY] [DLA 3173-1] linux-5.10 security update MLIST lists.debian.org
[PATCH bpf] bpf: Don't use tnum_range on array range checking for poke descriptors - Daniel Borkmann lore.kernel.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 181043 Debian Security Update for linux (CVE-2022-2905)
  • 181190 Debian Security Update for linux-5.10 (DLA 3173-1)
  • 199031 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel Vulnerabilities (USN-5729-1)
  • 199038 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel Vulnerabilities (USN-5729-2)
  • 354082 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel : ALAS2KERNEL-5.15-2022-008
  • 354084 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel : ALAS2KERNEL-5.10-2022-020
  • 354439 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel : ALAS2022-2022-150
  • 354468 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel : ALAS2022-2022-185
  • 354542 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel : ALAS-2022-185
  • 355199 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel : ALAS2023-2023-070
  • 377891 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for cloud-kernel (ALINUX3-SA-2023:0002)
  • 378468 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for cloud-kernel (ALINUX3-SA-20230042)
  • 378512 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for cloud-kernel (ALINUX3-SA-2023:0042)
  • 6140158 AWS Bottlerocket Security Update for kernel (GHSA-5fc6-q3c2-v4p4)
  • 752589 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2022:3264-1)
  • 752594 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2022:3293-1)
  • 752632 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2022:3450-1)
  • 753063 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2022:4617-1)
  • 753167 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2022:3288-1)
  • 753370 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2022:3609-1)
  • 753374 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2022:3809-1)
  • 903912 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (10945)
  • 903929 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (10922)
  • 904100 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (10945-1)
  • 904263 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (10922-1)
  • 906080 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (10945-2)
  • 906330 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (10922-2)
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