{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-49021 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2022-49021 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 21 Oct 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2022-49021 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2022-49021 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 21 Oct 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-49021 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-49021/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-49021/index.md)","id":"CVE-2022-49021","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-49021/index.md","name":"CVE-2022-49021","record":{"aliases":["DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49021","GHSA-44h7-hpp5-qghj","UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49021"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A null pointer dereference in the Linux kernel network PHY driver can cause a system crash when device probing fails.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"null_dereference"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[{"product":"linux_kernel","vendor":"linux"}],"cvss":{"score":5.5,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-476","name":"NULL Pointer Dereference"}],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: phy: fix null-ptr-deref while probe() failed\n\nI got a null-ptr-deref report as following when doing fault injection test:\n\nBUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000058\nOops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI\nCPU: 1 PID: 253 Comm: 507-spi-dm9051 Tainted: G    B            N 6.1.0-rc3+\nHardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.13.0-1ubuntu1.1 04/01/2014\nRIP: 0010:klist_put+0x2d/0xd0\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n klist_remove+0xf1/0x1c0\n device_release_driver_internal+0x23e/0x2d0\n bus_remove_device+0x1bd/0x240\n device_del+0x357/0x770\n phy_device_remove+0x11/0x30\n mdiobus_unregister+0xa5/0x140\n release_nodes+0x6a/0xa0\n devres_release_all+0xf8/0x150\n device_unbind_cleanup+0x19/0xd0\n\n//probe path:\nphy_device_register()\n  device_add()\n\nphy_connect\n  phy_attach_direct() //set device driver\n    probe() //it's failed, driver is not bound\n    device_bind_driver() // probe failed, it's not called\n\n//remove path:\nphy_device_remove()\n  device_del()\n    device_release_driver_internal()\n      __device_release_driver() //dev-\u003edrv is not NULL\n        klist_remove() \u003c- knode_driver is not added yet, cause null-ptr-deref\n\nIn phy_attach_direct(), after setting the 'dev-\u003edriver', probe() fails,\ndevice_bind_driver() is not called, so the knode_driver-\u003en_klist is not\nset, then it causes null-ptr-deref in __device_release_driver() while\ndeleting device. Fix this by setting dev-\u003edriver to NULL in the error\npath in phy_attach_direct().","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"net: phy: fix null-ptr-deref while probe() failed","id":"CVE-2022-49021","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"linux:linux_kernel","products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"type":"null_dereference","year":"2022"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":8,"next":{"headline":"wifi: mac8021: fix possible oob access in ieee80211_get_rate_duration","id":"CVE-2022-49022"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"net/9p: Fix a potential socket leak in p9_socket_open","id":"CVE-2022-49020"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2024-10-21","related":[{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write","id":"CVE-2026-53266","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2026-06-25"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation","id":"CVE-2013-6282","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-11-19"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow","id":"CVE-2022-0185","kev_date_added":"2024-08-21","published":"2022-02-11"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation","id":"CVE-2013-2094","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-05-14"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Unspecified","id":"CVE-2026-53362","kev_date_added":"2026-08-27","published":"2026-07-04"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Missing Initialization of a Variable","id":"CVE-2026-46300","kev_date_added":"2026-10-28","published":"2026-05-23"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Race Condition","id":"CVE-2025-39964","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2025-10-13"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-05-11","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A null pointer dereference in the Linux kernel network PHY driver can cause a system crash when device probing fails.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-49021/"}