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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-49889"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-05-01T14:10:33.832Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-23T15:23:09.111Z"
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-2022-49889"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49889.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49889"
title: "ring-buffer: Check for NULL cpu_buffer in ring_buffer_wake_waiters()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nring-buffer: Check for NULL cpu_buffer in ring_buffer_wake_waiters()\n\nOn some machines the number of listed CPUs may be bigger than the actual\nCPUs that exist. The tracing subsystem allocates a per_cpu directory with\naccess to the per CPU ring buffer via a cpuX file. But to save space, the\nring buffer will only allocate buffers for online CPUs, even though the\nCPU array will be as big as the nr_cpu_ids.\n\nWith the addition of waking waiters on the ring buffer when closing the\nfile, the ring_buffer_wake_waiters() now needs to make sure that the\nbuffer is allocated (with the irq_work allocated with it) before trying to\nwake waiters, as it will cause a NULL pointer dereference.\n\nWhile debugging this, I added a NULL check for the buffer itself (which is\nOK to do), and also NULL pointer checks against buffer-\u003ebuffers (which is\nnot fine, and will WARN) as well as making sure the CPU number passed in\nis within the nr_cpu_ids (which is also not fine if it isn't).\n\n\nBugzilla: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1204705"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"2475de2bc0de17fb1b24c5e90194f84b5ca70d3e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b5074df412bf3df9d6ce096b6fa03eb1082d05c9"},{"version":"f4f15344110d0b5b8822ac97bc8200e71939c945","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"49ca992f6e50d0f46ec9608f44e011cf3121f389"},{"version":"f3ddb74ad0790030c9592229fb14d8c451f4e9a8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7433632c9ff68a991bd0bc38cabf354e9d2de410"},{"version":"5544f411a4e8bc39e6a444badbac37dd0e0caf0a","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5.19.17","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.20"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.15.75","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15.78"},{"version":"6.0.3","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.0.8"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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