# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-49802"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-05-01T14:09:30.308Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:07:04.562Z"
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-2022-49802"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49802.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49802"
title: "ftrace: Fix null pointer dereference in ftrace_add_mod()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nftrace: Fix null pointer dereference in ftrace_add_mod()\n\nThe @ftrace_mod is allocated by kzalloc(), so both the members {prev,next}\nof @ftrace_mode-\u003elist are NULL, it's not a valid state to call list_del().\nIf kstrdup() for @ftrace_mod-\u003e{func|module} fails, it goes to @out_free\ntag and calls free_ftrace_mod() to destroy @ftrace_mod, then list_del()\nwill write prev-\u003enext and next-\u003eprev, where null pointer dereference\nhappens.\n\nBUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000008\nOops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n ftrace_mod_callback+0x20d/0x220\n ? do_filp_open+0xd9/0x140\n ftrace_process_regex.isra.51+0xbf/0x130\n ftrace_regex_write.isra.52.part.53+0x6e/0x90\n vfs_write+0xee/0x3a0\n ? __audit_filter_op+0xb1/0x100\n ? auditd_test_task+0x38/0x50\n ksys_write+0xa5/0xe0\n do_syscall_64+0x3a/0x90\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd\nKernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception\n\nSo call INIT_LIST_HEAD() to initialize the list member to fix this issue."
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