# CVE-2022-49870: capabilities: fix undefined behavior in bit shift for CAP\_TO\_MASK

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-05-01 · Updated: 2026-05-11

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 2.6.25

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: capabilities: fix undefined behavior in bit shift for CAP_TO_MASK Shifting signed 32-bit value by 31 bits is undefined, so changing significant bit to unsigned. The UBSAN warning calltrace like below: UBSAN: shift-out-of-bounds in security/commoncap.c:1252:2 left shift of 1 by 31 places cannot be represented in type 'int' Call Trace: <TASK> dump_stack_lvl+0x7d/0xa5 dump_stack+0x15/0x1b ubsan_epilogue+0xe/0x4e __ubsan_handle_shift_out_of_bounds+0x1e7/0x20c cap_task_prctl+0x561/0x6f0 security_task_prctl+0x5a/0xb0 __x64_sys_prctl+0x61/0x8f0 do_syscall_64+0x58/0x80 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd </TASK>

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5b79fa628e2ab789e629a83cd211ef9b4c1a593e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/65b0bc7a0690861812ade523d19f82688ab819dc
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dbaab08c8677d598244d21afb7818e44e1c5d826
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5661f111a1616ac105ec8cec81bff99b60f847ac
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fcbd2b336834bd24e1d9454ad5737856470c10d7
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/151dc8087b5609e53b069c068e3f3ee100efa586
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/27bdb134c043ff32c459d98f16550d0ffa0b3c34
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/46653972e3ea64f79e7f8ae3aa41a4d3fdb70a13

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