CVE-2022-50635 Affecting kernel-source package, versions <5.14.21-150400.24.194.1
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-SLES154-KERNELSOURCE-15343882
- published25 Feb 2026
- disclosed24 Feb 2026
Introduced: 24 Feb 2026
NewCVE-2022-50635 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade SLES:15.4 kernel-source to version 5.14.21-150400.24.194.1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-source package and not the kernel-source package as distributed by SLES.
See How to fix? for SLES:15.4 relevant fixed versions and status.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
powerpc/kprobes: Fix null pointer reference in arch_prepare_kprobe()
I found a null pointer reference in arch_prepare_kprobe():
echo 'p cmdline_proc_show' > kprobe_events
echo 'p cmdline_proc_show+16' >> kprobe_events
Kernel attempted to read user page (0) - exploit attempt? (uid: 0) BUG: Kernel NULL pointer dereference on read at 0x00000000 Faulting instruction address: 0xc000000000050bfc Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1] LE PAGE_SIZE=64K MMU=Radix SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA PowerNV Modules linked in: CPU: 0 PID: 122 Comm: sh Not tainted 6.0.0-rc3-00007-gdcf8e5633e2e #10 NIP: c000000000050bfc LR: c000000000050bec CTR: 0000000000005bdc REGS: c0000000348475b0 TRAP: 0300 Not tainted (6.0.0-rc3-00007-gdcf8e5633e2e) MSR: 9000000000009033 <SF,HV,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE> CR: 88002444 XER: 20040006 CFAR: c00000000022d100 DAR: 0000000000000000 DSISR: 40000000 IRQMASK: 0 ... NIP arch_prepare_kprobe+0x10c/0x2d0 LR arch_prepare_kprobe+0xfc/0x2d0 Call Trace: 0xc0000000012f77a0 (unreliable) register_kprobe+0x3c0/0x7a0 __register_trace_kprobe+0x140/0x1a0 __trace_kprobe_create+0x794/0x1040 trace_probe_create+0xc4/0xe0 create_or_delete_trace_kprobe+0x2c/0x80 trace_parse_run_command+0xf0/0x210 probes_write+0x20/0x40 vfs_write+0xfc/0x450 ksys_write+0x84/0x140 system_call_exception+0x17c/0x3a0 system_call_vectored_common+0xe8/0x278 --- interrupt: 3000 at 0x7fffa5682de0 NIP: 00007fffa5682de0 LR: 0000000000000000 CTR: 0000000000000000 REGS: c000000034847e80 TRAP: 3000 Not tainted (6.0.0-rc3-00007-gdcf8e5633e2e) MSR: 900000000280f033 <SF,HV,VEC,VSX,EE,PR,FP,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE> CR: 44002408 XER: 00000000
The address being probed has some special:
cmdline_proc_show: Probe based on ftrace cmdline_proc_show+16: Probe for the next instruction at the ftrace location
The ftrace-based kprobe does not generate kprobe::ainsn::insn, it gets set to NULL. In arch_prepare_kprobe() it will check for:
... prev = get_kprobe(p->addr - 1); preempt_enable_no_resched(); if (prev && ppc_inst_prefixed(ppc_inst_read(prev->ainsn.insn))) { ...
If prev is based on ftrace, 'ppc_inst_read(prev->ainsn.insn)' will occur with a null pointer reference. At this point prev->addr will not be a prefixed instruction, so the check can be skipped.
Check if prev is ftrace-based kprobe before reading 'prev->ainsn.insn' to fix this problem.
[mpe: Trim oops]
References
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-50635.html
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/1254592
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4eac4f6a86ae73ef4b772d37398beeba2fbfde4e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5fd1b369387c53ee6c774ab86e32e362a1e537ac
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7f536a8cb62dd5c084f112373fc34cdb5168a813
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/97f88a3d723162781d6cbfdc7b9617eefab55b19