# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-49796"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-05-01T14:09:26.392Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:06:57.256Z"
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-2022-49796"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49796.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49796"
title: "tracing: kprobe: Fix potential null-ptr-deref on trace_array in kprobe_event_gen_test_exit()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ntracing: kprobe: Fix potential null-ptr-deref on trace_array in kprobe_event_gen_test_exit()\n\nWhen test_gen_kprobe_cmd() failed after kprobe_event_gen_cmd_end(), it\nwill goto delete, which will call kprobe_event_delete() and release the\ncorresponding resource. However, the trace_array in gen_kretprobe_test\nwill point to the invalid resource. Set gen_kretprobe_test to NULL\nafter called kprobe_event_delete() to prevent null-ptr-deref.\n\nBUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000070\nPGD 0 P4D 0\nOops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI\nCPU: 0 PID: 246 Comm: modprobe Tainted: G        W\n6.1.0-rc1-00174-g9522dc5c87da-dirty #248\nHardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS\nrel-1.15.0-0-g2dd4b9b3f840-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014\nRIP: 0010:__ftrace_set_clr_event_nolock+0x53/0x1b0\nCode: e8 82 26 fc ff 49 8b 1e c7 44 24 0c ea ff ff ff 49 39 de 0f 84 3c\n01 00 00 c7 44 24 18 00 00 00 00 e8 61 26 fc ff 48 8b 6b 10 \u003c44\u003e 8b 65\n70 4c 8b 6d 18 41 f7 c4 00 02 00 00 75 2f\nRSP: 0018:ffffc9000159fe00 EFLAGS: 00010293\nRAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88810971d268 RCX: 0000000000000000\nRDX: ffff8881080be600 RSI: ffffffff811b48ff RDI: ffff88810971d058\nRBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000001\nR10: ffffc9000159fe58 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffffffffa0001064\nR13: ffffffffa000106c R14: ffff88810971d238 R15: 0000000000000000\nFS:  00007f89eeff6540(0000) GS:ffff88813b600000(0000)\nknlGS:0000000000000000\nCS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\nCR2: 0000000000000070 CR3: 000000010599e004 CR4: 0000000000330ef0\nDR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000\nDR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n __ftrace_set_clr_event+0x3e/0x60\n trace_array_set_clr_event+0x35/0x50\n ? 0xffffffffa0000000\n kprobe_event_gen_test_exit+0xcd/0x10b [kprobe_event_gen_test]\n __x64_sys_delete_module+0x206/0x380\n ? lockdep_hardirqs_on_prepare+0xd8/0x190\n ? syscall_enter_from_user_mode+0x1c/0x50\n do_syscall_64+0x3f/0x90\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd\nRIP: 0033:0x7f89eeb061b7"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"64836248dda20c8e7427b493f7e06d9bf8f58850","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"28a54854a95923b6266a9479ad660ca2cc0e1d5f"},{"version":"64836248dda20c8e7427b493f7e06d9bf8f58850","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e57daa750369fedbf678346aec724a43b9a51749"},{"version":"64836248dda20c8e7427b493f7e06d9bf8f58850","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"510c12f93674ea0a1423b24f36c67357168a262a"},{"version":"64836248dda20c8e7427b493f7e06d9bf8f58850","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"22ea4ca9631eb137e64e5ab899e9c89cb6670959"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.6","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.6"},{"version":"5.10.156","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.80","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.0.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.0.*"},{"version":"6.1","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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