Incorrect Conversion between Numeric Types Affecting perf-debuginfo package, versions <0:4.14.304-226.531.amzn2
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- published28 Oct 2025
- disclosed4 Oct 2025
Introduced: 4 Oct 2025
NewCVE-2022-50497 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2 perf-debuginfo to version 0:4.14.304-226.531.amzn2 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2-2023-1932.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream perf-debuginfo package and not the perf-debuginfo package as distributed by Amazon-Linux.
See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2 relevant fixed versions and status.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
binfmt_misc: fix shift-out-of-bounds in check_special_flags
UBSAN reported a shift-out-of-bounds warning:
left shift of 1 by 31 places cannot be represented in type 'int' Call Trace: <TASK> __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline] dump_stack_lvl+0x8d/0xcf lib/dump_stack.c:106 ubsan_epilogue+0xa/0x44 lib/ubsan.c:151 __ubsan_handle_shift_out_of_bounds+0x1e7/0x208 lib/ubsan.c:322 check_special_flags fs/binfmt_misc.c:241 [inline] create_entry fs/binfmt_misc.c:456 [inline] bm_register_write+0x9d3/0xa20 fs/binfmt_misc.c:654 vfs_write+0x11e/0x580 fs/read_write.c:582 ksys_write+0xcf/0x120 fs/read_write.c:637 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline] do_syscall_64+0x34/0x80 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd RIP: 0033:0x4194e1
Since the type of Node's flags is unsigned long, we should define these macros with same type too.
References
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-50497
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0f1a48994b3e516d5c7fd5d12204fdba7a604771
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/419b808504c26b3e3342365f34ccd0843e09a7f8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6a46bf558803dd2b959ca7435a5c143efe837217
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/88cea1676a09f7c45a1438153a126610c33b1590
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/97382a2639b1cd9631f6069061e9d7062cd2b098
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a651bb5ff997b9f02662bcdef3d8b4e6f0d79656
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a91123d4bda463469f68f0427adabf8108001f94
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dcbc51d31d0afbd45e830e3cf565a7b3ca7bf0d8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ea6145370be8016755c43aca799815fc4b8c88b1