Linux Kernel up to 5.18.3 copy_to_user memory corruption

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability labeled as critical has been found in Linux Kernel up to 5.18.3. This impacts the function copy_to_user. Executing a manipulation can lead to memory corruption. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2022-49341. There is not any exploit available. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Linux Kernel up to 5.18.3. This vulnerability affects the function copy_to_user. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf, arm64: Clear prog->jited_len along prog->jited syzbot reported an illegal copy_to_user() attempt from bpf_prog_get_info_by_fd() [1] There was no repro yet on this bug, but I think that commit 0aef499f3172 ("mm/usercopy: Detect vmalloc overruns") is exposing a prior bug in bpf arm64. bpf_prog_get_info_by_fd() looks at prog->jited_len to determine if the JIT image can be copied out to user space. My theory is that syzbot managed to get a prog where prog->jited_len has been set to 43, while prog->bpf_func has ben cleared. It is not clear why copy_to_user(uinsns, NULL, ulen) is triggering this particular warning. I thought find_vma_area(NULL) would not find a vm_struct. As we do not hold vmap_area_lock spinlock, it might be possible that the found vm_struct was garbage. [1] usercopy: Kernel memory exposure attempt detected from vmalloc (offset 792633534417210172, size 43)! kernel BUG at mm/usercopy.c:101! Internal error: Oops - BUG: 0 [#1] PREEMPT SMP Modules linked in: CPU: 0 PID: 25002 Comm: syz-executor.1 Not tainted 5.18.0-syzkaller-10139-g8291eaafed36 #0 Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT) pstate: 60400009 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--) pc : usercopy_abort+0x90/0x94 mm/usercopy.c:101 lr : usercopy_abort+0x90/0x94 mm/usercopy.c:89 sp : ffff80000b773a20 x29: ffff80000b773a30 x28: faff80000b745000 x27: ffff80000b773b48 x26: 0000000000000000 x25: 000000000000002b x24: 0000000000000000 x23: 00000000000000e0 x22: ffff80000b75db67 x21: 0000000000000001 x20: 000000000000002b x19: ffff80000b75db3c x18: 00000000fffffffd x17: 2820636f6c6c616d x16: 76206d6f72662064 x15: 6574636574656420 x14: 74706d6574746120 x13: 2129333420657a69 x12: 73202c3237313031 x11: 3237313434333533 x10: 3336323937207465 x9 : 657275736f707865 x8 : ffff80000a30c550 x7 : ffff80000b773830 x6 : ffff80000b773830 x5 : 0000000000000000 x4 : ffff00007fbbaa10 x3 : 0000000000000000 x2 : 0000000000000000 x1 : f7ff000028fc0000 x0 : 0000000000000064 Call trace: usercopy_abort+0x90/0x94 mm/usercopy.c:89 check_heap_object mm/usercopy.c:186 [inline] __check_object_size mm/usercopy.c:252 [inline] __check_object_size+0x198/0x36c mm/usercopy.c:214 check_object_size include/linux/thread_info.h:199 [inline] check_copy_size include/linux/thread_info.h:235 [inline] copy_to_user include/linux/uaccess.h:159 [inline] bpf_prog_get_info_by_fd.isra.0+0xf14/0xfdc kernel/bpf/syscall.c:3993 bpf_obj_get_info_by_fd+0x12c/0x510 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:4253 __sys_bpf+0x900/0x2150 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:4956 __do_sys_bpf kernel/bpf/syscall.c:5021 [inline] __se_sys_bpf kernel/bpf/syscall.c:5019 [inline] __arm64_sys_bpf+0x28/0x40 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:5019 __invoke_syscall arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:38 [inline] invoke_syscall+0x48/0x114 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:52 el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x44/0xec arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:142 do_el0_svc+0xa0/0xc0 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:206 el0_svc+0x44/0xb0 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:624 el0t_64_sync_handler+0x1ac/0x1b0 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:642 el0t_64_sync+0x198/0x19c arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:581 Code: aa0003e3 d00038c0 91248000 97fff65f (d4210000)

The advisory is available at git.kernel.org. This vulnerability was named CVE-2022-49341 since 02/26/2025. The exploitation appears to be easy. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 10/21/2025).

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 235756 (EulerOS 2.0 SP10 : kernel (EulerOS-SA-2025-1521)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 4.19.247, 5.4.198, 5.10.122, 5.15.47, 5.17.15 or 5.18.4 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch aaf61a312af63e1cfe2264c4c5b8cd4ea3626025/e412b3d178ea4bf746f6b8ee086761613704c6be/0cf7aaff290cdc4d7cee683d4a18138b0dacac48/3f4d5e727aeaa610688d46c9f101f78b7f712583/5c25a3040bc0486c41a7b63a1fb0de7cdb846ad7/41f7c4f85d402043687e863627a1a84fa867c62d/10f3b29c65bb2fe0d47c2945cd0b4087be1c5218 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at git.kernel.org. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (235756). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

Productinfo

Type

• Operating System

Vendor

• Linux

Name

• Kernel

Version

• 4.19.246
• 5.4.197
• 5.10.121
• 5.15.0
• 5.15.1
• 5.15.2
• 5.15.3
• 5.15.4
• 5.15.5
• 5.15.6
• 5.15.7
• 5.15.8
• 5.15.9
• 5.15.10
• 5.15.11
• 5.15.12
• 5.15.13
• 5.15.14
• 5.15.15
• 5.15.16
• 5.15.17
• 5.15.18
• 5.15.19
• 5.15.20
• 5.15.21
• 5.15.22
• 5.15.23
• 5.15.24
• 5.15.25
• 5.15.26
• 5.15.27
• 5.15.28
• 5.15.29
• 5.15.30
• 5.15.31
• 5.15.32
• 5.15.33
• 5.15.34
• 5.15.35
• 5.15.36
• 5.15.37
• 5.15.38
• 5.15.39
• 5.15.40
• 5.15.41
• 5.15.42
• 5.15.43
• 5.15.44
• 5.15.45
• 5.15.46
• 5.17.0
• 5.17.1
• 5.17.2
• 5.17.3
• 5.17.4
• 5.17.5
• 5.17.6
• 5.17.7
• 5.17.8
• 5.17.9
• 5.17.10
• 5.17.11
• 5.17.12
• 5.17.13
• 5.17.14
• 5.18.0
• 5.18.1
• 5.18.2
• 5.18.3

License

• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.kernel.org/

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