NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting kernel-rt-64k-modules-extra package, versions *
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Start learning- Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-KERNELRT64KMODULESEXTRA-10309902
- published6 Jun 2025
- disclosed1 May 2025
Introduced: 1 May 2025
CVE-2022-49797 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
There is no fixed version for RHEL:9 kernel-rt-64k-modules-extra.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-rt-64k-modules-extra package and not the kernel-rt-64k-modules-extra package as distributed by RHEL.
See How to fix? for RHEL:9 relevant fixed versions and status.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tracing: kprobe: Fix potential null-ptr-deref on trace_event_file in kprobe_event_gen_test_exit()
When trace_get_event_file() failed, gen_kretprobe_test will be assigned as the error code. If module kprobe_event_gen_test is removed now, the null pointer dereference will happen in kprobe_event_gen_test_exit(). Check if gen_kprobe_test or gen_kretprobe_test is error code or NULL before dereference them.
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000012 PGD 0 P4D 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI CPU: 3 PID: 2210 Comm: modprobe Not tainted 6.1.0-rc1-00171-g2159299a3b74-dirty #217 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.15.0-0-g2dd4b9b3f840-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:kprobe_event_gen_test_exit+0x1c/0xb5 [kprobe_event_gen_test] Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at 0xffffffff9ffffff2. RSP: 0018:ffffc900015bfeb8 EFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: ffffffffffffffea RBX: ffffffffa0002080 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: ffffffffa0001054 RSI: ffffffffa0001064 RDI: ffffffffdfc6349c RBP: ffffffffa0000000 R08: 0000000000000004 R09: 00000000001e95c0 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 0000000000000800 R13: ffffffffa0002420 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000 FS: 00007f56b75be540(0000) GS:ffff88813bc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: ffffffff9ffffff2 CR3: 000000010874a006 CR4: 0000000000330ee0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: <TASK> __x64_sys_delete_module+0x206/0x380 ? lockdep_hardirqs_on_prepare+0xd8/0x190 ? syscall_enter_from_user_mode+0x1c/0x50 do_syscall_64+0x3f/0x90 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-49797
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3a41c0f2a5c3bf72b4c4e9dd4b1025378201e332
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bb70fcae4115d24b7e8cee17a6da8b1943f546bb
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e0d75267f59d7084e0468bd68beeb1bf9c71d7c0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fd0efd4f7bfe611a8339ba01bc2ac3c33e79159d