CVE-2022-49100 virtio_console: eliminate anonymous module_init & module_exit

What is CVE-2022-49100?

CVE-2022-49100 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 26 Feb 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

virtio_console: eliminate anonymous module_init & module_exit

Eliminate anonymous module_init() and module_exit(), which can lead to confusion or ambiguity when reading System.map, crashes/oops/bugs, or an initcall_debug log.

Give each of these init and exit functions unique driver-specific names to eliminate the anonymous names.

Example 1: (System.map) ffffffff832fc78c t init ffffffff832fc79e t init ffffffff832fc8f8 t init

Example 2: (initcall_debug log) calling init+0x0/0x12 @ 1 initcall init+0x0/0x12 returned 0 after 15 usecs calling init+0x0/0x60 @ 1 initcall init+0x0/0x60 returned 0 after 2 usecs calling init+0x0/0x9a @ 1 initcall init+0x0/0x9a returned 0 after 74 usecs

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-49100?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2022-49100?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2022-49100 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-49100 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Linux kernel

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• CVE-2013-6282 Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2022-0185 Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow Exploited High 8.4
• CVE-2013-2094 Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation Exploited High 8.4
• CVE-2026-53362 Linux Kernel Unspecified Exploited High 7.8

All Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49100, GHSA-w752-xgwc-m5jm, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49100.