Public vulnerability disclosure

CVE-2022-49907

net: mdio: fix undefined behavior in bit shift for __mdiobus_register

published

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: mdio: fix undefined behavior in bit shift for __mdiobus_register 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 drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c:586:27 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 __mdiobus_register+0x49d/0x4e0 fixed_mdio_bus_init+0xd8/0x12d do_one_initcall+0x76/0x430 kernel_init_freeable+0x3b3/0x422 kernel_init+0x24/0x1e0 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 </TASK>

Technical severityUnscoredNo score in collected sources
Published2025-05-01Source updated 2026-11-05
Collected2026-11-052 attributed sources

Fixes and workarounds

No remediation reported in collected sources.

Missing remediation information is not evidence that no patch exists.

Affected products and versions

Affected products, source version ranges and reporting authorities
ProductVersionsAuthority
Linux
Linux
≥ 4fd5f812c23c7deee6425f4a318e85c317cd1d6c; < 20ed01a7b9af6e6a3c33761eebbb710ea6dd49b7 (affected, git)
≥ 4fd5f812c23c7deee6425f4a318e85c317cd1d6c; < 7006176a3c863e3e353ce1b8a349ef5bb1b9320e (affected, git)
≥ 4fd5f812c23c7deee6425f4a318e85c317cd1d6c; < a3fafc974be37319679f36dc4e7cca7db1e02973 (affected, git)
≥ 4fd5f812c23c7deee6425f4a318e85c317cd1d6c; < 4954b5359eb141499492fadfab891e28905509e2 (affected, git)
≥ 4fd5f812c23c7deee6425f4a318e85c317cd1d6c; < 634f066d02bdb22a26da7deb0c7617ab1a65fc9d (affected, git)
≥ 4fd5f812c23c7deee6425f4a318e85c317cd1d6c; < 985a88bf0b27193522bba7856b1763f428cef19d (affected, git)
≥ 4fd5f812c23c7deee6425f4a318e85c317cd1d6c; < 6ce6f8f8f6316da6f92afe7490bc2f0b654d68e0 (affected, git)
≥ 4fd5f812c23c7deee6425f4a318e85c317cd1d6c; < 40e4eb324c59e11fcb927aa46742d28aba6ecb8a (affected, git)
Other versions: unaffected
CNA: Linux
Linux
Linux
2.6.28 (affected)
≥ 0; < 2.6.28 (unaffected, semver)
≥ 4.9.333; ≤ 4.9.* (unaffected, semver)
≥ 4.14.299; ≤ 4.14.* (unaffected, semver)
≥ 4.19.265; ≤ 4.19.* (unaffected, semver)
≥ 5.4.224; ≤ 5.4.* (unaffected, semver)
≥ 5.10.154; ≤ 5.10.* (unaffected, semver)
≥ 5.15.78; ≤ 5.15.* (unaffected, semver)
≥ 6.0.8; ≤ 6.0.* (unaffected, semver)
≥ 6.1; ≤ * (unaffected, original_commit_for_fix)
Other versions: affected
CNA: Linux

Version ranges are source assertions. Check the vendor advisory and your installed configuration before determining exposure.

CVSS assessments

No CVSS assessment reported. An unscored record is not a low-severity determination.

Exploit evidence

No exploit evidence in collected sources. This is not proof of no exploitation.

References

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