vulnerability

Ubuntu: (CVE-2022-49802): linux vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
May 1, 2025
Added
May 6, 2025
Modified
Jun 12, 2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ftrace: Fix null pointer dereference in ftrace_add_mod()

The @ftrace_mod is allocated by kzalloc(), so both the members {prev,next}
of @ftrace_mode->list are NULL, it's not a valid state to call list_del().
If kstrdup() for @ftrace_mod->{func|module} fails, it goes to @out_free
tag and calls free_ftrace_mod() to destroy @ftrace_mod, then list_del()
will write prev->next and next->prev, where null pointer dereference
happens.

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000008
Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
Call Trace:

ftrace_mod_callback+0x20d/0x220
? do_filp_open+0xd9/0x140
ftrace_process_regex.isra.51+0xbf/0x130
ftrace_regex_write.isra.52.part.53+0x6e/0x90
vfs_write+0xee/0x3a0
? __audit_filter_op+0xb1/0x100
? auditd_test_task+0x38/0x50
ksys_write+0xa5/0xe0
do_syscall_64+0x3a/0x90
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception

So call INIT_LIST_HEAD() to initialize the list member to fix this issue.

Solution(s)

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