Tracker / CVE-2022-50538
CVE-2022-50538
Medium 5.5
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vme: Fix error not catched in fake_init() In fake_init(), __root_device_register() is possible to fail but it's ignored, which can cause unregistering vme_root fail when exit. general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc000000008c KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000460-0x0000000000000467] RIP: 0010:root_device_unregister+0x26/0x60 Call Trace: <TASK> __x64_sys_delete_module+0x34f/0x540 do_syscall_64+0x38/0x90 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd Return error when __root_device_register() fails.
Affected products and versions
| linux | linux_kernel · 4.10 → 4.14.303 |
|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel · 4.15 → 4.19.270 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 4.20 → 5.4.229 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 4.9 → 4.9.337 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 5.11 → 5.15.86 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 5.16 → 6.0.16 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 5.5 → 5.10.163 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 6.1 → 6.1.2 |
Analysis
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