{"id":"CVE-2022-49797","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2022-49797","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T20:42:52.226Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tracing: kprobe: Fix potential null-ptr-deref on trace_event_file in kprobe_event_gen_test_exit() When trace_get_event_file() failed, gen_kretprobe_test will be assigned as the error…","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ntracing: kprobe: Fix potential null-ptr-deref on trace_event_file in kprobe_event_gen_test_exit()\n\nWhen trace_get_event_file() failed, gen_kretprobe_test will be assigned\nas the error code. If module kprobe_event_gen_test is removed now, the\nnull pointer dereference will happen in kprobe_event_gen_test_exit().\nCheck if gen_kprobe_test or gen_kretprobe_test is error code or NULL\nbefore dereference them.\n\nBUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000012\nPGD 0 P4D 0\nOops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI\nCPU: 3 PID: 2210 Comm: modprobe Not tainted\n6.1.0-rc1-00171-g2159299a3b74-dirty #217\nHardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS\nrel-1.15.0-0-g2dd4b9b3f840-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014\nRIP: 0010:kprobe_event_gen_test_exit+0x1c/0xb5 [kprobe_event_gen_test]\nCode: Unable to access opcode bytes at 0xffffffff9ffffff2.\nRSP: 0018:ffffc900015bfeb8 EFLAGS: 00010246\nRAX: ffffffffffffffea RBX: ffffffffa0002080 RCX: 0000000000000000\nRDX: ffffffffa0001054 RSI: ffffffffa0001064 RDI: ffffffffdfc6349c\nRBP: ffffffffa0000000 R08: 0000000000000004 R09: 00000000001e95c0\nR10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 0000000000000800\nR13: ffffffffa0002420 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000\nFS:  00007f56b75be540(0000) GS:ffff88813bc00000(0000)\nknlGS:0000000000000000\nCS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\nCR2: ffffffff9ffffff2 CR3: 000000010874a006 CR4: 0000000000330ee0\nDR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000\nDR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400\nCall Trace:\n <TASK>\n __x64_sys_delete_module+0x206/0x380\n ? lockdep_hardirqs_on_prepare+0xd8/0x190\n ? syscall_enter_from_user_mode+0x1c/0x50\n do_syscall_64+0x3f/0x90\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd","published":"2025-05-01T15:16:03.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T05:19:10.000Z","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":0.00202,"percentile":0.09969,"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 (0.20%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3a41c0f2a5c3bf72b4c4e9dd4b1025378201e332","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bb70fcae4115d24b7e8cee17a6da8b1943f546bb","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e0d75267f59d7084e0468bd68beeb1bf9c71d7c0","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fd0efd4f7bfe611a8339ba01bc2ac3c33e79159d","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-49797","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."}