Medium severity6.7NVD Advisory· Published Sep 23, 2022· Updated Apr 14, 2026
CVE-2022-2785
CVE-2022-2785
Description
There exists an arbitrary memory read within the Linux Kernel BPF - Constants provided to fill pointers in structs passed in to bpf_sys_bpf are not verified and can point anywhere, including memory not owned by BPF. An attacker with CAP_BPF can arbitrarily read memory from anywhere on the system. We recommend upgrading past commit 86f44fcec22c
Affected products
1Patches
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References
1- lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220816205517.682470-1-zhuyifei%40google.com/T/nvdVendor Advisory
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