CVE-2022-49289 (GCVE-0-2022-49289)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-02-26 01:56 – Updated: 2026-08-05 08:54
VLAI
Title
uaccess: fix integer overflow on access_ok()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: uaccess: fix integer overflow on access_ok() Three architectures check the end of a user access against the address limit without taking a possible overflow into account. Passing a negative length or another overflow in here returns success when it should not. Use the most common correct implementation here, which optimizes for a constant 'size' argument, and turns the common case into a single comparison.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
Linux CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 6641 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 7567746e1c0d66ac0ef8a9d8816ca694462c7370 , < e65d28d4e9bf90a35ba79c06661a572a38391dec (git)
Affected: 7567746e1c0d66ac0ef8a9d8816ca694462c7370 , < 99801e2f457824955da4aadaa035913a6dede03a (git)
Affected: 7567746e1c0d66ac0ef8a9d8816ca694462c7370 , < a1ad747fc1a0e06d1bf26b996ee8a56b5c8d02d8 (git)
Affected: 7567746e1c0d66ac0ef8a9d8816ca694462c7370 , < 222ca305c9fd39e5ed8104da25c09b2b79a516a8 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 3.2
Unaffected: 0 , < 3.2 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.32 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.16.18 , ≤ 5.16.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.17.1 , ≤ 5.17.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.18 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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