CVE-2022-49797

EUVD-2025-12987
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 code. If module kprobe_event_gen_test is removed now, the
null pointer dereference will happen in kprobe_event_gen_test_exit().
Check if gen_kprobe_test or gen_kretprobe_test is error code or NULL
before dereference them.

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000012
PGD 0 P4D 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI
CPU: 3 PID: 2210 Comm: modprobe Not tainted
6.1.0-rc1-00171-g2159299a3b74-dirty #217
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS
rel-1.15.0-0-g2dd4b9b3f840-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:kprobe_event_gen_test_exit+0x1c/0xb5 [kprobe_event_gen_test]
Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at 0xffffffff9ffffff2.
RSP: 0018:ffffc900015bfeb8 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: ffffffffffffffea RBX: ffffffffa0002080 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: ffffffffa0001054 RSI: ffffffffa0001064 RDI: ffffffffdfc6349c
RBP: ffffffffa0000000 R08: 0000000000000004 R09: 00000000001e95c0
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 0000000000000800
R13: ffffffffa0002420 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
FS:  00007f56b75be540(0000) GS:ffff88813bc00000(0000)
knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: ffffffff9ffffff2 CR3: 000000010874a006 CR4: 0000000000330ee0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __x64_sys_delete_module+0x206/0x380
 ? lockdep_hardirqs_on_prepare+0xd8/0x190
 ? syscall_enter_from_user_mode+0x1c/0x50
 do_syscall_64+0x3f/0x90
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
ProviderTypeBase ScoreAtk. VectorAtk. ComplexityPriv. RequiredVector
NISTPrimary
5.5 MEDIUM
LOCAL
LOW
LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Base Score
CVSS 3.x
EPSS Score
Percentile: 19%
Affected Products (NVD)
VendorProductVersion
linuxlinux_kernel
5.6 ≤
𝑥
< 5.10.156
linuxlinux_kernel
5.11 ≤
𝑥
< 5.15.80
linuxlinux_kernel
5.16 ≤
𝑥
< 6.0.10
linuxlinux_kernel
6.1:rc1
linuxlinux_kernel
6.1:rc2
linuxlinux_kernel
6.1:rc3
linuxlinux_kernel
6.1:rc4
linuxlinux_kernel
6.1:rc5
𝑥
= Vulnerable software versions
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Debian Releases
Debian Product
Codename
linux
bookworm
6.1.129-1
fixed
bookworm (security)
6.1.135-1
fixed
bullseye
5.10.223-1
fixed
bullseye (security)
5.10.234-1
fixed
sid
6.12.25-1
fixed
trixie
6.12.22-1
fixed
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Ubuntu Releases
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focal
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