{"id":"CVE-2022-49021","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2022-49021","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T19:04:45.864Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: phy: fix null-ptr-deref while probe() failed I got a null-ptr-deref report as following when doing fault injection test: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address:…","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: phy: fix null-ptr-deref while probe() failed\n\nI got a null-ptr-deref report as following when doing fault injection test:\n\nBUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000058\nOops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI\nCPU: 1 PID: 253 Comm: 507-spi-dm9051 Tainted: G    B            N 6.1.0-rc3+\nHardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.13.0-1ubuntu1.1 04/01/2014\nRIP: 0010:klist_put+0x2d/0xd0\nCall Trace:\n <TASK>\n klist_remove+0xf1/0x1c0\n device_release_driver_internal+0x23e/0x2d0\n bus_remove_device+0x1bd/0x240\n device_del+0x357/0x770\n phy_device_remove+0x11/0x30\n mdiobus_unregister+0xa5/0x140\n release_nodes+0x6a/0xa0\n devres_release_all+0xf8/0x150\n device_unbind_cleanup+0x19/0xd0\n\n//probe path:\nphy_device_register()\n  device_add()\n\nphy_connect\n  phy_attach_direct() //set device driver\n    probe() //it's failed, driver is not bound\n    device_bind_driver() // probe failed, it's not called\n\n//remove path:\nphy_device_remove()\n  device_del()\n    device_release_driver_internal()\n      __device_release_driver() //dev->drv is not NULL\n        klist_remove() <- knode_driver is not added yet, cause null-ptr-deref\n\nIn phy_attach_direct(), after setting the 'dev->driver', probe() fails,\ndevice_bind_driver() is not called, so the knode_driver->n_klist is not\nset, then it causes null-ptr-deref in __device_release_driver() while\ndeleting device. Fix this by setting dev->driver to NULL in the error\npath in phy_attach_direct().","published":"2024-10-21T20:15:13.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T05:16:52.000Z","status":"Analyzed","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":5.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-476"],"affected":["linux/linux kernel"],"epss":{"score":0.00281,"percentile":0.2039,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.28%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0744c7be4de564db03e24527b2e096b7e0e20972","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/369eb2c9f1f72adbe91e0ea8efb130f0a2ba11a6","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3e21f85d87c836462bb52ef2078ea561260935c1","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/51d7f6b20fae8bae64ad1136f1e30d1fd5ba78f7","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7730904f50c7187dd16c76949efb56b5fb55cd57","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8aaafe0f71314f46a066382a047ba8bb3840d273","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eaa5722549ac2604ffa56c2e946acc83226f130c","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fe6bc99c27c21348f548966118867ed26a9a372c","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-49021","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}