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medium 5.5

CVE-2022-49796 json

tracing: kprobe: Fix potential null-ptr-deref on trace_array in kprobe_event_gen_test_exit()

published 2025-05-01 18 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2025-12980

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 10%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

tracing: kprobe: Fix potential null-ptr-deref on trace_array in kprobe_event_gen_test_exit()

When test_gen_kprobe_cmd() failed after kprobe_event_gen_cmd_end(), it will goto delete, which will call kprobe_event_delete() and release the corresponding resource. However, the trace_array in gen_kretprobe_test will point to the invalid resource. Set gen_kretprobe_test to NULL after called kprobe_event_delete() to prevent null-ptr-deref.

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000070 PGD 0 P4D 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI CPU: 0 PID: 246 Comm: modprobe Tainted: G W 6.1.0-rc1-00174-g9522dc5c87da-dirty #248 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.15.0-0-g2dd4b9b3f840-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:__ftrace_set_clr_event_nolock+0x53/0x1b0 Code: e8 82 26 fc ff 49 8b 1e c7 44 24 0c ea ff ff ff 49 39 de 0f 84 3c 01 00 00 c7 44 24 18 00 00 00 00 e8 61 26 fc ff 48 8b 6b 10 <44> 8b 65 70 4c 8b 6d 18 41 f7 c4 00 02 00 00 75 2f RSP: 0018:ffffc9000159fe00 EFLAGS: 00010293 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88810971d268 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: ffff8881080be600 RSI: ffffffff811b48ff RDI: ffff88810971d058 RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000001 R10: ffffc9000159fe58 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffffffffa0001064 R13: ffffffffa000106c R14: ffff88810971d238 R15: 0000000000000000 FS: 00007f89eeff6540(0000) GS:ffff88813b600000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000000000000070 CR3: 000000010599e004 CR4: 0000000000330ef0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: <TASK> __ftrace_set_clr_event+0x3e/0x60 trace_array_set_clr_event+0x35/0x50 ? 0xffffffffa0000000 kprobe_event_gen_test_exit+0xcd/0x10b [kprobe_event_gen_test] __x64_sys_delete_module+0x206/0x380 ? lockdep_hardirqs_on_prepare+0xd8/0x190 ? syscall_enter_from_user_mode+0x1c/0x50 do_syscall_64+0x3f/0x90 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd RIP: 0033:0x7f89eeb061b7

Patch / fix

  • Linux Linux 5.10.156, 5.15.80, 6.0.10, 6.1
  • linux Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 6.0.10-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49796

  • linux Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-67.74
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1031.35
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1030.37
  • linux-gke Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1028.33
  • linux-ibm Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1026.29
  • linux-kvm Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1029.34
  • linux-azure Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1034.41
  • linux-gkeop Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1016.21

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49796

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • kernel-64kb SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-ESPOS 5.14.21-150400.24.167.1
  • kernel-syms SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS +3 more 5.14.21-150400.24.167.1
  • kernel-source SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS +3 more 5.14.21-150400.24.167.1
  • kernel-default SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE Micro 5.4 +7 more 5.14.21-150400.24.167.1
  • kernel-zfcpdump SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, Manager Server 4.3 5.14.21-150400.24.167.1
  • kernel-obs-build SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS +1 more 5.14.21-150400.24.167.1
  • kernel-default-base SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE Micro 5.4 +5 more 5.14.21-150400.24.167.1.150400.24.84.1
  • kernel-64kb SLES 15 SP5-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP5-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP5-ESPOS 5.14.21-150500.55.110.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2025:02262-1SUSE-SU-2025:02173-1SUSE-SU-2025:01966-1SUSE-SU-2025:01918-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2022-49796 updated cvss 5.5

kernel: tracing: kprobe: Fix potential null-ptr-deref on trace_array in kprobe_event_gen_test_exit()

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 kernel
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.20% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 10% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • Linux Linux

Classification

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References

Sources

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