CVEvulnerability

CVE-2022-50538

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2025-10-07 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2025-10-07
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: vme: Fix error not catched in fake_init() In fake_init(), __root_device_register() is possible to fail but it's ignored, which can cause unregistering vme_root fail when exit. general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc000000008c KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000460-0x0000000000000467] RIP: 0010:root_device_unregister+0x26/0x60 Call Trace: <TASK> __x64_sys_delete_module+0x34f/0x540 do_syscall_64+0x38/0x90 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd Return error when __root_device_register() fails.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 4.9 < 4.9.337) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.10 < 4.14.303) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.15 < 4.19.270) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.20 < 5.4.229) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.163) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.86) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.0.16) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.1 < 6.1.2)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness

References