CVEvulnerability

CVE-2022-49229

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2025-02-26 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2025-02-26
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ptp: unregister virtual clocks when unregistering physical clock. When unregistering a physical clock which has some virtual clocks, unregister the virtual clocks with it. This fixes the following oops, which can be triggered by unloading a driver providing a PTP clock when it has enabled virtual clocks: BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffffffc04fc4d8 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI RIP: 0010:ptp_vclock_read+0x31/0xb0 Call Trace: timecounter_read+0xf/0x50 ptp_vclock_refresh+0x2c/0x50 ? ptp_clock_release+0x40/0x40 ptp_aux_kworker+0x17/0x30 kthread_worker_fn+0x9b/0x240 ? kthread_should_park+0x30/0x30 kthread+0xe2/0x110 ? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x20/0x20 ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 5.14.1 < 5.15.33) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 5.16.19) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.17 < 5.17.2) • linux linux kernel 5.14

References