CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-50206
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-06-18
- Last modified
- 2026-08-15
- 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:
arm64: fix oops in concurrently setting insn_emulation sysctls
emulation_proc_handler() changes table->data for proc_dointvec_minmax
and can generate the following Oops if called concurrently with itself:
| Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000010
| Internal error: Oops: 96000006 [#1] SMP
| Call trace:
| update_insn_emulation_mode+0xc0/0x148
| emulation_proc_handler+0x64/0xb8
| proc_sys_call_handler+0x9c/0xf8
| proc_sys_write+0x18/0x20
| __vfs_write+0x20/0x48
| vfs_write+0xe4/0x1d0
| ksys_write+0x70/0xf8
| __arm64_sys_write+0x20/0x28
| el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x7c/0x1c0
| el0_svc_handler+0x2c/0xa0
| el0_svc+0x8/0x200
To fix this issue, keep the table->data as &insn->current_mode and
use container_of() to retrieve the insn pointer. Another mutex is
used to protect against the current_mode update but not for retrieving
insn_emulation as table->data is no longer changing.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 4.14.291)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.15 < 4.19.256)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.20 < 5.4.211)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.137)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.61)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 5.18.18)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.19 < 5.19.2)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/04549063d5701976034d8c2bfda3d3a8cbf0409f Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/07022e07017ee5540f5559b0aeb916e8383c1e1a Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/353b4673d01c512303c45cf2346f630cda73b5c9 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6a2fd114678d7fc1b5a0f8865ae98f1c17787455 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9d5fec6ba2e4117d196a8259ab54615ffe562460 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/af483947d472eccb79e42059276c4deed76f99a6 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b51881b1da57fe9877125dfdd0aac5172958fcfd Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cc69ef95988b9ef2fc730ec452a7441efb90ef5e Patch