CVE-2022-50538

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50538
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-50538.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2022-50538
Downstream
Published
2025-10-07T15:21:04.428Z
Modified
2026-05-15T11:54:50.060092621Z
Summary
vme: Fix error not catched in fake_init()
Details

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

vme: Fix error not catched in fake_init()

In fake_init(), _rootdeviceregister() is possible to fail but it's ignored, which can cause unregistering vmeroot fail when exit.

general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc000000008c KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000460-0x0000000000000467] RIP: 0010:rootdeviceunregister+0x26/0x60 Call Trace: <TASK> _x64sysdeletemodule+0x34f/0x540 dosyscall64+0x38/0x90 entrySYSCALL64afterhwframe+0x63/0xcd

Return error when __rootdeviceregister() fails.

Database specific 
{
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/50xxx/CVE-2022-50538.json",
    "cna_assigner": "Linux"
}
References

Affected packages

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
4.9.0
Fixed
4.9.337
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
4.10.0
Fixed
4.14.303
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
4.15.0
Fixed
4.19.270
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
4.20.0
Fixed
5.4.229
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.5.0
Fixed
5.10.163
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.11.0
Fixed
5.15.86
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.16.0
Fixed
6.0.16
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.1.0
Fixed
6.1.2

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-50538.json"