Bug 2363483 (CVE-2022-49796) - CVE-2022-49796 kernel: tracing: kprobe: Fix potential null-ptr-deref on trace_array in kprobe_event_gen_test_exit()
Summary: CVE-2022-49796 kernel: tracing: kprobe: Fix potential null-ptr-deref on trace...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2022-49796
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Reported: 2025-05-01 15:06 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-06-06 01:13 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-05-01 15:06:32 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

tracing: kprobe: Fix potential null-ptr-deref on trace_array in kprobe_event_gen_test_exit()

When test_gen_kprobe_cmd() failed after kprobe_event_gen_cmd_end(), it
will goto delete, which will call kprobe_event_delete() and release the
corresponding resource. However, the trace_array in gen_kretprobe_test
will point to the invalid resource. Set gen_kretprobe_test to NULL
after called kprobe_event_delete() to prevent null-ptr-deref.

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000070
PGD 0 P4D 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI
CPU: 0 PID: 246 Comm: modprobe Tainted: G        W
6.1.0-rc1-00174-g9522dc5c87da-dirty #248
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS
rel-1.15.0-0-g2dd4b9b3f840-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:__ftrace_set_clr_event_nolock+0x53/0x1b0
Code: e8 82 26 fc ff 49 8b 1e c7 44 24 0c ea ff ff ff 49 39 de 0f 84 3c
01 00 00 c7 44 24 18 00 00 00 00 e8 61 26 fc ff 48 8b 6b 10 <44> 8b 65
70 4c 8b 6d 18 41 f7 c4 00 02 00 00 75 2f
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000159fe00 EFLAGS: 00010293
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88810971d268 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: ffff8881080be600 RSI: ffffffff811b48ff RDI: ffff88810971d058
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000001
R10: ffffc9000159fe58 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffffffffa0001064
R13: ffffffffa000106c R14: ffff88810971d238 R15: 0000000000000000
FS:  00007f89eeff6540(0000) GS:ffff88813b600000(0000)
knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000000000070 CR3: 000000010599e004 CR4: 0000000000330ef0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __ftrace_set_clr_event+0x3e/0x60
 trace_array_set_clr_event+0x35/0x50
 ? 0xffffffffa0000000
 kprobe_event_gen_test_exit+0xcd/0x10b [kprobe_event_gen_test]
 __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
RIP: 0033:0x7f89eeb061b7

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-05-02 04:18:48 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025050124-CVE-2022-49796-a73c@gregkh/T


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