Bug 2363473 (CVE-2022-49797) - CVE-2022-49797 kernel: tracing: kprobe: Fix potential null-ptr-deref on trace_event_file in kprobe_event_gen_test_exit()
Summary: CVE-2022-49797 kernel: tracing: kprobe: Fix potential null-ptr-deref on trace...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2022-49797
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Reported: 2025-05-01 15:06 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-05-02 05:58 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-05-01 15:06:06 UTC
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

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-05-02 05:55:10 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025050124-CVE-2022-49797-24aa@gregkh/T


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