# CVE-2022-49782: perf: Improve missing SIGTRAP checking

> A race condition in the Linux kernel perf subsystem can trigger a kernel warning and potential denial of service when software events fire before pending signals are consumed.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 1 May 2025
- **Updated:** 11 May 2026
- **Also known as:** DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49782, GHSA-h557-5h69-jf25, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49782

## What is CVE-2022-49782?

CVE-2022-49782 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 1 May 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:

perf: Improve missing SIGTRAP checking

To catch missing SIGTRAP we employ a WARN in __perf_event_overflow(),
which fires if pending_sigtrap was already set: returning to user space
without consuming pending_sigtrap, and then having the event fire again
would re-enter the kernel and trigger the WARN.

This, however, seemed to miss the case where some events not associated
with progress in the user space task can fire and the interrupt handler
runs before the IRQ work meant to consume pending_sigtrap (and generate
the SIGTRAP).

syzbot gifted us this stack trace:

 | WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 3607 at kernel/events/core.c:9313 __perf_event_overflow
 | Modules linked in:
 | CPU: 0 PID: 3607 Comm: syz-executor100 Not tainted 6.1.0-rc2-syzkaller-00073-g88619e77b33d #0
 | Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/11/2022
 | RIP: 0010:__perf_event_overflow+0x498/0x540 kernel/events/core.c:9313
 | <...>
 | Call Trace:
 |  <TASK>
 |  perf_swevent_hrtimer+0x34f/0x3c0 kernel/events/core.c:10729
 |  __run_hrtimer kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1685 [inline]
 |  __hrtimer_run_queues+0x1c6/0xfb0 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1749
 |  hrtimer_interrupt+0x31c/0x790 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1811
 |  local_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1096 [inline]
 |  __sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x17c/0x640 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1113
 |  sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x40/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1107
 |  asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x16/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:649
 | <...>
 |  </TASK>

In this case, syzbot produced a program with event type
PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE and config PERF_COUNT_SW_CPU_CLOCK. The hrtimer
manages to fire again before the IRQ work got a chance to run, all while
never having returned to user space.

Improve the WARN to check for real progress in user space: approximate
this by storing a 32-bit hash of the current IP into pending_sigtrap,
and if an event fires while pending_sigtrap still matches the previous
IP, we assume no progress (false negatives are possible given we could
return to user space and trigger again on the same IP).

Weakness: CWE-674 (Uncontrolled Recursion)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-49782?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2022-49782?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2022-49782 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-49782 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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- [CVE-2026-53362](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-53362/): Linux Kernel Unspecified (high 7.8, exploited in the wild)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2022-49782 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2022-49782 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 1 May 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-49782 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-49782/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-49782/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49782
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-49782
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-49782

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