CVE-2022-50497

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel (affected versions not specified)

Description The Linux kernel contains an issue within the binfmt misc module related to a shift-out-of-bounds condition in the check special flags function. This condition was identified by UBSAN (Undefined Behavior Sanitizer) reporting that a left shift operation could exceed the bounds of the 'int' data type. The issue occurs during the processing of Node flags, which are of type unsigned long, while the macros used for flag manipulation are defined with the 'int' type.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.