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🛡️ CVE-2022-50862 — kernel

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit NVD
N/A
CVSS Score
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Description

bpf: prevent decl_tag from being referenced in func_proto

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

bpf: prevent decl_tag from being referenced in func_proto

Syzkaller was able to hit the following issue:

------------[ cut here ]------------

WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 3609 at kernel/bpf/btf.c:1946

btf_type_id_size+0x2d5/0x9d0 kernel/bpf/btf.c:1946

Modules linked in:

CPU: 0 PID: 3609 Comm: syz-executor361 Not tainted

6.0.0-syzkaller-02734-g0326074ff465 #0

Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS

Google 09/22/2022

RIP: 0010:btf_type_id_size+0x2d5/0x9d0 kernel/bpf/btf.c:1946

Code: ef e8 7f 8e e4 ff 41 83 ff 0b 77 28 f6 44 24 10 18 75 3f e8 6d 91

e4 ff 44 89 fe bf 0e 00 00 00 e8 20 8e e4 ff e8 5b 91 e4 ff <0f> 0b 45

31 f6 e9 98 02 00 00 41 83 ff 12 74 18 e8 46 91 e4 ff 44

RSP: 0018:ffffc90003cefb40 EFLAGS: 00010293

RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000002 RCX: 0000000000000000

RDX: ffff8880259c0000 RSI: ffffffff81968415 RDI: 0000000000000005

RBP: ffff88801270ca00 R08: 0000000000000005 R09: 000000000000000e

R10: 0000000000000011 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000

R13: 0000000000000011 R14: ffff888026ee6424 R15: 0000000000000011

FS: 000055555641b300(0000) GS:ffff8880b9a00000(0000)

knlGS:0000000000000000

CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033

CR2: 0000000000f2e258 CR3: 000000007110e000 CR4: 00000000003506f0

DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000

DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400

Call Trace:

<TASK>

btf_func_proto_check kernel/bpf/btf.c:4447 [inline]

btf_check_all_types kernel/bpf/btf.c:4723 [inline]

btf_parse_type_sec kernel/bpf/btf.c:4752 [inline]

btf_parse kernel/bpf/btf.c:5026 [inline]

btf_new_fd+0x1926/0x1e70 kernel/bpf/btf.c:6892

bpf_btf_load kernel/bpf/syscall.c:4324 [inline]

__sys_bpf+0xb7d/0x4cf0 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:5010

__do_sys_bpf kernel/bpf/syscall.c:5069 [inline]

__se_sys_bpf kernel/bpf/syscall.c:5067 [inline]

__x64_sys_bpf+0x75/0xb0 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:5067

do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]

do_syscall_64+0x35/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80

entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

RIP: 0033:0x7f0fbae41c69

Code: 28 c3 e8 2a 14 00 00 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 48 89 f8 48 89

f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01

f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 c0 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48

RSP: 002b:00007ffc8aeb6228 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000141

RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007f0fbae41c69

RDX: 0000000000000020 RSI: 0000000020000140 RDI: 0000000000000012

RBP: 00007f0fbae05e10 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000

R10: 00000000ffffffff R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007f0fbae05ea0

R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000

</TASK>

Looks like it tries to create a func_proto which return type is

decl_tag. For the details, see Martin's spot on analysis in [0].

0: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/CAKH8qBuQDLva_hHxxBuZzyAcYNO4ejhovz6TQeVSk8HY-2SO6g@mail.gmail.com/T/#mea6524b3fcd6298347432226e81b1e6155efc62c

Affected software

CVE-2022-50862 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • kernel (from 5.16.0 up to 6.0.7)
  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 30 December 2025 and last revised on 12 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
github.com (Advisory)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
git.kernel.org (Package)

Other advisories for this package

kernel has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

CVE-2022-50862 on other distributions

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Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2025-12-30
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-08-12
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
kernel 5.16.0 6.0.7
unknown — —

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