# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-50452"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-10-01T11:45:25.394Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:19:44.873Z"
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-2022-50452"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-50452.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50452"
title: "net: sched: cake: fix null pointer access issue when cake_init() fails"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: sched: cake: fix null pointer access issue when cake_init() fails\n\nWhen the default qdisc is cake, if the qdisc of dev_queue fails to be\ninited during mqprio_init(), cake_reset() is invoked to clear\nresources. In this case, the tins is NULL, and it will cause gpf issue.\n\nThe process is as follows:\nqdisc_create_dflt()\n\tcake_init()\n\t\tq-\u003etins = kvcalloc(...)        ---\u003efailed, q-\u003etins is NULL\n\t...\n\tqdisc_put()\n\t\t...\n\t\tcake_reset()\n\t\t\t...\n\t\t\tcake_dequeue_one()\n\t\t\t\tb = &q-\u003etins[...]   ---\u003eq-\u003etins is NULL\n\nThe following is the Call Trace information:\ngeneral protection fault, probably for non-canonical address\n0xdffffc0000000000: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN\nKASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007]\nRIP: 0010:cake_dequeue_one+0xc9/0x3c0\nCall Trace:\n\u003cTASK\u003e\ncake_reset+0xb1/0x140\nqdisc_reset+0xed/0x6f0\nqdisc_destroy+0x82/0x4c0\nqdisc_put+0x9e/0xb0\nqdisc_create_dflt+0x2c3/0x4a0\nmqprio_init+0xa71/0x1760\nqdisc_create+0x3eb/0x1000\ntc_modify_qdisc+0x408/0x1720\nrtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x38e/0xac0\nnetlink_rcv_skb+0x12d/0x3a0\nnetlink_unicast+0x4a2/0x740\nnetlink_sendmsg+0x826/0xcc0\nsock_sendmsg+0xc5/0x100\n____sys_sendmsg+0x583/0x690\n___sys_sendmsg+0xe8/0x160\n__sys_sendmsg+0xbf/0x160\ndo_syscall_64+0x35/0x80\nentry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0\nRIP: 0033:0x7f89e5122d04\n\u003c/TASK\u003e"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"046f6fd5daefac7f5abdafb436b30f63bc7c602b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"86aa1390898146f1de277bb6d2a8ed7fc7a43f12"},{"version":"046f6fd5daefac7f5abdafb436b30f63bc7c602b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bc8301ea7e7f1bb9d2ba2fcdf7b5ec2f0792b47e"},{"version":"046f6fd5daefac7f5abdafb436b30f63bc7c602b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ae48bee2830bf216800e1447baca39541e27a12e"},{"version":"046f6fd5daefac7f5abdafb436b30f63bc7c602b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"154f4c06d9dbec1a14e91286c70b6305810302e0"},{"version":"046f6fd5daefac7f5abdafb436b30f63bc7c602b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1dc0a019550fd38ec6cab2d73c90df2bd659c96b"},{"version":"046f6fd5daefac7f5abdafb436b30f63bc7c602b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"51f9a8921ceacd7bf0d3f47fa867a64988ba1dcb"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.19","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.19"},{"version":"4.19.264","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.221","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.152","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.76","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"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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