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CVE-2022-49030

21
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-49030 is a high-severity vulnerability (CVSS 7.8) in the Linux kernel's libbpf component, specifically affecting the handling of ring buffer mmap sizes. The flaw, categorized as CWE-190 (Integer Overflow or Wraparound), could lead to an integer overflow when mapping producer and data pages, particularly for 32-bit applications on 64-bit kernels. A successful local attack (AV:L/AC:L/PR:L) could result in high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts (C:H/I:H/A:H). There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 5.8, < 5.10.158CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 5.11, < 5.15.82CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 5.16, < 6.0.12CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.1:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.1:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.8HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.28%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
19.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0028 is in the 56th percentile among its peer group of 17,070 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2022-49030Low

kernel: libbpf: Handle size overflow for ringbuf mmap

Oct 21, 2024

References

git.kernel.org / stable/c/0140e079a42064680394fff1199a7b5483688dec
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/535a25ab4f9a45f74ba38ab71de95e97474922ed
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/8a549ab6724520aa3c07f47e0eba820293551490
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/927cbb478adf917e0a142b94baa37f06279cc466
Patch