CVSS 3.1
5.5 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2022-50538
Medium (5.5) in linux linux kernel. EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
vme: Fix error not catched in fake_init()
In fake_init(), __root_device_register() is possible to fail but it's
ignored, which can cause unregistering vme_root fail when exit.
general protection fault,
probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc000000008c
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000460-0x0000000000000467]
RIP: 0010:root_device_unregister+0x26/0x60
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__x64_sys_delete_module+0x34f/0x540
do_syscall_64+0x38/0x90
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
Return error when __root_device_register() fails.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 5% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-476
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- linux:linux_kernel
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/09be0e7ac5f9374b6f8de72c89ed67129af71f65
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/37d3de40c1ffb6a5e626bf46ff5ef5766c824e2c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4bc217b25ea81034fad8e33fd33e4659f086421d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/60ff9bd4ffc87bace581e235a6728f5ac8e5071f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/69b43937f14bdc3594f57f1a507a14f3d1187136