# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-50295"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-09-15T14:45:51.241Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:16:33.068Z"
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-2022-50295"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-50295.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50295"
title: "io_uring/msg_ring: Fix NULL pointer dereference in io_msg_send_fd()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nio_uring/msg_ring: Fix NULL pointer dereference in io_msg_send_fd()\n\nSyzkaller produced the below call trace:\n\n BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in io_msg_ring+0x3cb/0x9f0\n Write of size 8 at addr 0000000000000070 by task repro/16399\n\n CPU: 0 PID: 16399 Comm: repro Not tainted 6.1.0-rc1 #28\n Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.11.0-2.el7\n Call Trace:\n  \u003cTASK\u003e\n  dump_stack_lvl+0xcd/0x134\n  ? io_msg_ring+0x3cb/0x9f0\n  kasan_report+0xbc/0xf0\n  ? io_msg_ring+0x3cb/0x9f0\n  kasan_check_range+0x140/0x190\n  io_msg_ring+0x3cb/0x9f0\n  ? io_msg_ring_prep+0x300/0x300\n  io_issue_sqe+0x698/0xca0\n  io_submit_sqes+0x92f/0x1c30\n  __do_sys_io_uring_enter+0xae4/0x24b0\n....\n RIP: 0033:0x7f2eaf8f8289\n RSP: 002b:00007fff40939718 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000001aa\n RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007f2eaf8f8289\n RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000006f71 RDI: 0000000000000004\n RBP: 00007fff409397a0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000039\n R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00000000004006d0\n R13: 00007fff40939880 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000\n  \u003c/TASK\u003e\n Kernel panic - not syncing: panic_on_warn set ...\n\nWe don't have a NULL check on file_ptr in io_msg_send_fd() function,\nso when file_ptr is NUL src_file is also NULL and get_file()\ndereferences a NULL pointer and leads to above crash.\n\nAdd a NULL check to fix this issue."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"e6130eba8a848a7a6ba6c534bd8f6d60749ae1a9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0163e04ea64cc3dfaa12390286e5f2f481c3b2e3"},{"version":"e6130eba8a848a7a6ba6c534bd8f6d60749ae1a9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"16bbdfe5fb0e78e0acb13e45fc127e9a296913f2"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.0","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.0"},{"version":"6.0.6","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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