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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2022-49977" idYear: 2022 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-06-18T11:00:39.871Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-05T08:56:59.013Z" 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-2022-49977" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49977.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49977" title: "ftrace: Fix NULL pointer dereference in is_ftrace_trampoline when ftrace is dead" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nftrace: Fix NULL pointer dereference in is_ftrace_trampoline when ftrace is dead\n\nftrace_startup does not remove ops from ftrace_ops_list when\nftrace_startup_enable fails:\n\nregister_ftrace_function\n ftrace_startup\n __register_ftrace_function\n ...\n add_ftrace_ops(&ftrace_ops_list, ops)\n ...\n ...\n ftrace_startup_enable // if ftrace failed to modify, ftrace_disabled is set to 1\n ...\n return 0 // ops is in the ftrace_ops_list.\n\nWhen ftrace_disabled = 1, unregister_ftrace_function simply returns without doing anything:\nunregister_ftrace_function\n ftrace_shutdown\n if (unlikely(ftrace_disabled))\n return -ENODEV; // return here, __unregister_ftrace_function is not executed,\n // as a result, ops is still in the ftrace_ops_list\n __unregister_ftrace_function\n ...\n\nIf ops is dynamically allocated, it will be free later, in this case,\nis_ftrace_trampoline accesses NULL pointer:\n\nis_ftrace_trampoline\n ftrace_ops_trampoline\n do_for_each_ftrace_op(op, ftrace_ops_list) // OOPS! op may be NULL!\n\nSyzkaller reports as follows:\n[ 1203.506103] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 000000000000010b\n[ 1203.508039] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode\n[ 1203.508798] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page\n[ 1203.509558] PGD 800000011660b067 P4D 800000011660b067 PUD 130fb8067 PMD 0\n[ 1203.510560] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI\n[ 1203.511189] CPU: 6 PID: 29532 Comm: syz-executor.2 Tainted: G B W 5.10.0 #8\n[ 1203.512324] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.14.0-0-g155821a1990b-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014\n[ 1203.513895] RIP: 0010:is_ftrace_trampoline+0x26/0xb0\n[ 1203.514644] Code: ff eb d3 90 41 55 41 54 49 89 fc 55 53 e8 f2 00 fd ff 48 8b 1d 3b 35 5d 03 e8 e6 00 fd ff 48 8d bb 90 00 00 00 e8 2a 81 26 00 \u003c48\u003e 8b ab 90 00 00 00 48 85 ed 74 1d e8 c9 00 fd ff 48 8d bb 98 00\n[ 1203.518838] RSP: 0018:ffffc900012cf960 EFLAGS: 00010246\n[ 1203.520092] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 000000000000007b RCX: ffffffff8a331866\n[ 1203.521469] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000008 RDI: 000000000000010b\n[ 1203.522583] RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffffff8df18b07\n[ 1203.523550] R10: fffffbfff1be3160 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 0000000000478399\n[ 1203.524596] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff888145088000 R15: 0000000000000008\n[ 1203.525634] FS: 00007f429f5f4700(0000) GS:ffff8881daf00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\n[ 1203.526801] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\n[ 1203.527626] CR2: 000000000000010b CR3: 0000000170e1e001 CR4: 00000000003706e0\n[ 1203.528611] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000\n[ 1203.529605] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400\n\nTherefore, when ftrace_startup_enable fails, we need to rollback registration\nprocess and remove ops from ftrace_ops_list." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"8a56d7761d2d041ae5e8215d20b4167d8aa93f51","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8569b4ada1e0b9bfaa125bd0c0967918b6560fa2"},{"version":"8a56d7761d2d041ae5e8215d20b4167d8aa93f51","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4c34a2a6c9927c239dd2e295a03d49b37b618d2c"},{"version":"8a56d7761d2d041ae5e8215d20b4167d8aa93f51","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ddffe882d74ef43a3494f0ab0c24baf076c45f96"},{"version":"8a56d7761d2d041ae5e8215d20b4167d8aa93f51","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"934e49f7d696afdae9f979abe3f308408184e17b"},{"version":"8a56d7761d2d041ae5e8215d20b4167d8aa93f51","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"dbd8c8fc60480e3faa3ae7e27ebe03371ecd1b77"},{"version":"8a56d7761d2d041ae5e8215d20b4167d8aa93f51","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e4ae97295984ff1b9b340ed18ae1b066f36b7835"},{"version":"8a56d7761d2d041ae5e8215d20b4167d8aa93f51","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d81bd6671f45fde4c3ac7fd7733c6e3082ae9d8e"},{"version":"8a56d7761d2d041ae5e8215d20b4167d8aa93f51","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c3b0f72e805f0801f05fa2aa52011c4bfc694c44"},{"version":"969a08e9048ddd0d655a19e692673cdb95116ce6","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"51d351d5b949ae7204696ada7ef502ed34d34fb0","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"2940c25bec92f40a3f7f32504b8ea115d1701892","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"189f4e672fc1c086f78818affc810ef29dda42a3","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"3.2.54","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.3"},{"version":"3.4.72","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.5"},{"version":"3.10.22","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.11"},{"version":"3.12.3","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.13"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.13","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.13"},{"version":"4.9.327","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.9.*"},{"version":"4.14.292","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.14.*"},{"version":"4.19.257","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.212","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.141","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.65","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"5.19.7","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.19.*"},{"version":"6.0","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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