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
2026-03-20T12:22:35.407609Z
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

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
658bcdae9c6755806e66b33e29d56b33a3ff421a
Fixed
e831fdd60e5863ee03173baf5a0f7c5450b44381
Fixed
69b43937f14bdc3594f57f1a507a14f3d1187136
Fixed
09be0e7ac5f9374b6f8de72c89ed67129af71f65
Fixed
f3f65c4177846c483bf009f8c512ab04b3c62466
Fixed
37d3de40c1ffb6a5e626bf46ff5ef5766c824e2c
Fixed
4bc217b25ea81034fad8e33fd33e4659f086421d
Fixed
a2a93546d414c7fe4862b87183fb737d1300d9d2
Fixed
60ff9bd4ffc87bace581e235a6728f5ac8e5071f
Fixed
7bef797d707f1744f71156b21d41e3b8c946631f

Database specific

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