{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-49796 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2022-49796 is a medium-severity 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."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2022-49796 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2022-49796 is a medium-severity 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.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-49796 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-2022-49796/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-49796/index.md)","id":"CVE-2022-49796","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-49796/index.md","name":"CVE-2022-49796","record":{"aliases":["DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49796","GHSA-988r-r585-2mrv","UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49796"],"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's kprobe tracing module can cause a system crash when unloading the test module.","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\ntracing: kprobe: Fix potential null-ptr-deref on trace_array in kprobe_event_gen_test_exit()\n\nWhen test_gen_kprobe_cmd() failed after kprobe_event_gen_cmd_end(), it\nwill goto delete, which will call kprobe_event_delete() and release the\ncorresponding resource. However, the trace_array in gen_kretprobe_test\nwill point to the invalid resource. Set gen_kretprobe_test to NULL\nafter called kprobe_event_delete() to prevent null-ptr-deref.\n\nBUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000070\nPGD 0 P4D 0\nOops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI\nCPU: 0 PID: 246 Comm: modprobe Tainted: G        W\n6.1.0-rc1-00174-g9522dc5c87da-dirty #248\nHardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS\nrel-1.15.0-0-g2dd4b9b3f840-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014\nRIP: 0010:__ftrace_set_clr_event_nolock+0x53/0x1b0\nCode: e8 82 26 fc ff 49 8b 1e c7 44 24 0c ea ff ff ff 49 39 de 0f 84 3c\n01 00 00 c7 44 24 18 00 00 00 00 e8 61 26 fc ff 48 8b 6b 10 \u003c44\u003e 8b 65\n70 4c 8b 6d 18 41 f7 c4 00 02 00 00 75 2f\nRSP: 0018:ffffc9000159fe00 EFLAGS: 00010293\nRAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88810971d268 RCX: 0000000000000000\nRDX: ffff8881080be600 RSI: ffffffff811b48ff RDI: ffff88810971d058\nRBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000001\nR10: ffffc9000159fe58 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffffffffa0001064\nR13: ffffffffa000106c R14: ffff88810971d238 R15: 0000000000000000\nFS:  00007f89eeff6540(0000) GS:ffff88813b600000(0000)\nknlGS:0000000000000000\nCS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\nCR2: 0000000000000070 CR3: 000000010599e004 CR4: 0000000000330ef0\nDR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000\nDR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n __ftrace_set_clr_event+0x3e/0x60\n trace_array_set_clr_event+0x35/0x50\n ? 0xffffffffa0000000\n kprobe_event_gen_test_exit+0xcd/0x10b [kprobe_event_gen_test]\n __x64_sys_delete_module+0x206/0x380\n ? lockdep_hardirqs_on_prepare+0xd8/0x190\n ? syscall_enter_from_user_mode+0x1c/0x50\n do_syscall_64+0x3f/0x90\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd\nRIP: 0033:0x7f89eeb061b7","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":"tracing: kprobe: Fix potential null-ptr-deref on trace_array in kprobe_event_gen_test_exit()","id":"CVE-2022-49796","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":4,"next":{"headline":"tracing: kprobe: Fix potential null-ptr-deref on trace_event_file in kprobe_event_gen_test_exit()","id":"CVE-2022-49797"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"rethook: fix a potential memleak in rethook_alloc()","id":"CVE-2022-49795"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2025-05-01","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":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-05-11","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A null pointer dereference in the Linux kernel's kprobe tracing module can cause a system crash when unloading the test module.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-49796/"}