{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-49797 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2022-49797 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-2022-49797 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2022-49797 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-2022-49797 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-2022-49797/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-49797/index.md)","id":"CVE-2022-49797","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-49797/index.md","name":"CVE-2022-49797","record":{"aliases":["DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49797","GHSA-23wh-q78v-xxm4","UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49797"],"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 the module is removed after initialization failure.","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_event_file in kprobe_event_gen_test_exit()\n\nWhen trace_get_event_file() failed, gen_kretprobe_test will be assigned\nas the error code. If module kprobe_event_gen_test is removed now, the\nnull pointer dereference will happen in kprobe_event_gen_test_exit().\nCheck if gen_kprobe_test or gen_kretprobe_test is error code or NULL\nbefore dereference them.\n\nBUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000012\nPGD 0 P4D 0\nOops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI\nCPU: 3 PID: 2210 Comm: modprobe Not tainted\n6.1.0-rc1-00171-g2159299a3b74-dirty #217\nHardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS\nrel-1.15.0-0-g2dd4b9b3f840-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014\nRIP: 0010:kprobe_event_gen_test_exit+0x1c/0xb5 [kprobe_event_gen_test]\nCode: Unable to access opcode bytes at 0xffffffff9ffffff2.\nRSP: 0018:ffffc900015bfeb8 EFLAGS: 00010246\nRAX: ffffffffffffffea RBX: ffffffffa0002080 RCX: 0000000000000000\nRDX: ffffffffa0001054 RSI: ffffffffa0001064 RDI: ffffffffdfc6349c\nRBP: ffffffffa0000000 R08: 0000000000000004 R09: 00000000001e95c0\nR10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 0000000000000800\nR13: ffffffffa0002420 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000\nFS:  00007f56b75be540(0000) GS:ffff88813bc00000(0000)\nknlGS:0000000000000000\nCS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\nCR2: ffffffff9ffffff2 CR3: 000000010874a006 CR4: 0000000000330ee0\nDR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000\nDR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\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","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_event_file in kprobe_event_gen_test_exit()","id":"CVE-2022-49797","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: Fix race where eprobes can be called before the event","id":"CVE-2022-49798"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"tracing: kprobe: Fix potential null-ptr-deref on trace_array in kprobe_event_gen_test_exit()","id":"CVE-2022-49796"},"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 the module is removed after initialization failure.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-49797/"}