CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-49802
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-05-01
- 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
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ftrace: Fix null pointer dereference in ftrace_add_mod()
The @ftrace_mod is allocated by kzalloc(), so both the members {prev,next}
of @ftrace_mode->list are NULL, it's not a valid state to call list_del().
If kstrdup() for @ftrace_mod->{func|module} fails, it goes to @out_free
tag and calls free_ftrace_mod() to destroy @ftrace_mod, then list_del()
will write prev->next and next->prev, where null pointer dereference
happens.
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000008
Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
Call Trace:
<TASK>
ftrace_mod_callback+0x20d/0x220
? do_filp_open+0xd9/0x140
ftrace_process_regex.isra.51+0xbf/0x130
ftrace_regex_write.isra.52.part.53+0x6e/0x90
vfs_write+0xee/0x3a0
? __audit_filter_op+0xb1/0x100
? auditd_test_task+0x38/0x50
ksys_write+0xa5/0xe0
do_syscall_64+0x3a/0x90
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception
So call INIT_LIST_HEAD() to initialize the list member to fix this issue.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.13 < 4.14.300)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.15 < 4.19.267)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.20 < 5.4.225)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.156)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.80)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.0.10)
• linux linux kernel 6.1
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/19ba6c8af9382c4c05dc6a0a79af3013b9a35cd0 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1bea037a1abb23a6729bef36a2265a4565f5ea77 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/665b4c6648bf2b91f69b33817f4321cf4c3cafe9 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6a14828caddad0d989495a72af678adf60992704 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6e50eb4b1807017f6c2d5089064256ce2de8aef1 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b5bfc61f541d3f092b13dedcfe000d86eb8e133c Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f715f31559b82e3f75ce047fa476de63d8107584 Patch