CVE-2022-49970 | bpf, cgroup: Fix kernel BUG in purge_effective_progs

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf, cgroup: Fix kernel BUG in purge_effective_progs Syzkaller reported a triggered kernel BUG as follows: ------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at kernel/bpf/cgroup.c:925! invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI CPU: 1 PID: 194 Comm: detach Not tainted 5.19.0-14184-g69dac8e431af #8 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.0-0-gd239552ce722-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:__cgroup_bpf_detach+0x1f2/0x2a0 Code: 00 e8 92 60 30 00 84 c0 75 d8 4c 89 e0 31 f6 85 f6 74 19 42 f6 84 28 48 05 00 00 02 75 0e 48 8b 80 c0 00 00 00 48 85 c0 75 e5 <0f> 0b 48 8b 0c5 RSP: 0018:ffffc9000055bdb0 EFLAGS: 00000246 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff888100ec0800 RCX: ffffc900000f1000 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: ffff888100ec4578 RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: ffff888100ec0800 R09: 0000000000000040 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff888100ec4000 R13: 000000000000000d R14: ffffc90000199000 R15: ffff888100effb00 FS: 00007f68213d2b80(0000) GS:ffff88813bc80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 000055f74a0e5850 CR3: 0000000102836000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 Call Trace: <TASK> cgroup_bpf_prog_detach+0xcc/0x100 __sys_bpf+0x2273/0x2a00 __x64_sys_bpf+0x17/0x20 do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd RIP: 0033:0x7f68214dbcb9 Code: 08 44 89 e0 5b 41 5c c3 66 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 ff8 RSP: 002b:00007ffeb487db68 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000141 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 000000000000000b RCX: 00007f68214dbcb9 RDX: 0000000000000090 RSI: 00007ffeb487db70 RDI: 0000000000000009 RBP: 0000000000000003 R08: 0000000000000012 R09: 0000000b00000003 R10: 00007ffeb487db70 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007ffeb487dc20 R13: 0000000000000004 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 000055f74a1011b0 </TASK> Modules linked in: ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- Repetition steps: For the following cgroup tree, root | cg1 | cg2 1. attach prog2 to cg2, and then attach prog1 to cg1, both bpf progs attach type is NONE or OVERRIDE. 2. write 1 to /proc/thread-self/fail-nth for failslab. 3. detach prog1 for cg1, and then kernel BUG occur. Failslab injection will cause kmalloc fail and fall back to purge_effective_progs. The problem is that cg2 have attached another prog, so when go through cg2 layer, iteration will add pos to 1, and subsequent operations will be skipped by the following condition, and cg will meet NULL in the end. `if (pos && !(cg->bpf.flags[atype] & BPF_F_ALLOW_MULTI))` The NULL cg means no link or prog match, this is as expected, and it's not a bug. So here just skip the no match situation.

Published: 2025-06-18 Last update: 2026-01-23 Assigner: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2022-49970 is rated Low Risk (35.7/100): CVSS High severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.07%). Mandatory action: Monitor for updates and reassess as exploit intelligence or EPSS changes.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2022-49970

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-04-14 0.02% 0.07% +0.05%
2 2025-06-18 0.02%

Full EPSS history (2 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2022-49970

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
7.1 3.1 HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:L)
They already need access on the box, or another person has to do something wrong; it’s not a remote drive-by.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:L)
A normal user session is enough; they don’t have to be admin.
User interaction (UI:N)
Nobody has to click “OK” or open a trap file; it can work without a victim helping.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:H)
Serious risk that confidential data gets exposed in a big way.
Integrity (I:N)
Data isn’t meaningfully altered or forged.
Availability (A:H)
Could take the service down hard or make it unusable for people who depend on it.
1.8 5.2 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2022-49970

OS Trackers for CVE-2022-49970

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2022-49970 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (linux), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-49970
redhat medium https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-49970
suse medium CVE-2022-49970 severity moderate: SUSE including 53 source package names (bpftool-7.0.0-284.11.1.el9_2, cluster-md-kmp-default, …), 293 product×package rows across 53 product lines (SLES-LTSS-TERADATA 15 SP2, SUSE Liberty Linux 9, … (53 product lines)): Known Not Affected 266, Fixed 27. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-49970/
ubuntu medium CVE-2022-49970 medium priority: Ubuntu including 158 source packages (linux, linux-allwinner-5.19, …), 1551 status rows across 10 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, noble, oracular, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial): DNE 1145, ignored 147, not-affected 145, released 113, needs-triage 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-49970

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2022-49970

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
linux linux_kernel >= 5.10.138, < 5.10.142 cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
linux linux_kernel >= 5.15.61, < 5.15.66 cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
linux linux_kernel >= 5.18.18, < 5.19 cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
linux linux_kernel >= 5.19.2, < 5.19.8 cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
linux linux_kernel 6.0 cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
linux linux_kernel 6.0 cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
linux linux_kernel 6.0 cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.0:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2022-49970

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