CVE-2022-49802

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49802
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-49802.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2022-49802
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-05-01T14:09:30.308Z
Modified
2026-04-03T13:14:40.863378136Z
Summary
ftrace: Fix null pointer dereference in ftrace_add_mod()
Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ftrace: Fix null pointer dereference in ftraceaddmod()

The @ftracemod is allocated by kzalloc(), so both the members {prev,next} of @ftracemode->list are NULL, it's not a valid state to call listdel(). If kstrdup() for @ftracemod->{func|module} fails, it goes to @outfree tag and calls freeftracemod() to destroy @ftracemod, then list_del() will write prev->next and next->prev, where null pointer dereference happens.

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000008 Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI Call Trace: <TASK> ftracemodcallback+0x20d/0x220 ? dofilpopen+0xd9/0x140 ftraceprocessregex.isra.51+0xbf/0x130 ftraceregexwrite.isra.52.part.53+0x6e/0x90 vfs_write+0xee/0x3a0 ? _auditfilterop+0xb1/0x100 ? auditdtesttask+0x38/0x50 ksyswrite+0xa5/0xe0 dosyscall64+0x3a/0x90 entrySYSCALL64afterhwframe+0x63/0xcd Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception

So call INITLISTHEAD() to initialize the list member to fix this issue.

Database specific
{
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/49xxx/CVE-2022-49802.json",
    "cna_assigner": "Linux"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
673feb9d76ab3eddde7acfd94b206e321cfc90b9
Fixed
665b4c6648bf2b91f69b33817f4321cf4c3cafe9
Fixed
b5bfc61f541d3f092b13dedcfe000d86eb8e133c
Fixed
f715f31559b82e3f75ce047fa476de63d8107584
Fixed
6a14828caddad0d989495a72af678adf60992704
Fixed
1bea037a1abb23a6729bef36a2265a4565f5ea77
Fixed
6e50eb4b1807017f6c2d5089064256ce2de8aef1
Fixed
19ba6c8af9382c4c05dc6a0a79af3013b9a35cd0

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-49802.json"