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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2022-49021" idYear: 2022 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-10-21T20:06:28.608Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T18:51:40.589Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:49.724Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49021" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49021.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49021" title: "net: phy: fix null-ptr-deref while probe() failed" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: phy: fix null-ptr-deref while probe() failed\n\nI got a null-ptr-deref report as following when doing fault injection test:\n\nBUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000058\nOops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI\nCPU: 1 PID: 253 Comm: 507-spi-dm9051 Tainted: G B N 6.1.0-rc3+\nHardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.13.0-1ubuntu1.1 04/01/2014\nRIP: 0010:klist_put+0x2d/0xd0\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n klist_remove+0xf1/0x1c0\n device_release_driver_internal+0x23e/0x2d0\n bus_remove_device+0x1bd/0x240\n device_del+0x357/0x770\n phy_device_remove+0x11/0x30\n mdiobus_unregister+0xa5/0x140\n release_nodes+0x6a/0xa0\n devres_release_all+0xf8/0x150\n device_unbind_cleanup+0x19/0xd0\n\n//probe path:\nphy_device_register()\n device_add()\n\nphy_connect\n phy_attach_direct() //set device driver\n probe() //it's failed, driver is not bound\n device_bind_driver() // probe failed, it's not called\n\n//remove path:\nphy_device_remove()\n device_del()\n device_release_driver_internal()\n __device_release_driver() //dev-\u003edrv is not NULL\n klist_remove() \u003c- knode_driver is not added yet, cause null-ptr-deref\n\nIn phy_attach_direct(), after setting the 'dev-\u003edriver', probe() fails,\ndevice_bind_driver() is not called, so the knode_driver-\u003en_klist is not\nset, then it causes null-ptr-deref in __device_release_driver() while\ndeleting device. Fix this by setting dev-\u003edriver to NULL in the error\npath in phy_attach_direct()." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"e13934563db047043ccead26412f552375cea90c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8aaafe0f71314f46a066382a047ba8bb3840d273"},{"version":"e13934563db047043ccead26412f552375cea90c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"51d7f6b20fae8bae64ad1136f1e30d1fd5ba78f7"},{"version":"e13934563db047043ccead26412f552375cea90c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0744c7be4de564db03e24527b2e096b7e0e20972"},{"version":"e13934563db047043ccead26412f552375cea90c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3e21f85d87c836462bb52ef2078ea561260935c1"},{"version":"e13934563db047043ccead26412f552375cea90c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fe6bc99c27c21348f548966118867ed26a9a372c"},{"version":"e13934563db047043ccead26412f552375cea90c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7730904f50c7187dd16c76949efb56b5fb55cd57"},{"version":"e13934563db047043ccead26412f552375cea90c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"eaa5722549ac2604ffa56c2e946acc83226f130c"},{"version":"e13934563db047043ccead26412f552375cea90c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"369eb2c9f1f72adbe91e0ea8efb130f0a2ba11a6"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.14","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.14"},{"version":"4.9.335","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.9.*"},{"version":"4.14.301","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.14.*"},{"version":"4.19.268","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.226","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.158","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.82","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.0.12","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.0.*"},{"version":"6.1","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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