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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-50731"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-24T12:22:51.122Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:24:25.645Z"
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-2022-50731"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-50731.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50731"
title: "crypto: akcipher - default implementation for setting a private key"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncrypto: akcipher - default implementation for setting a private key\n\nChanges from v1:\n  * removed the default implementation from set_pub_key: it is assumed that\n    an implementation must always have this callback defined as there are\n    no use case for an algorithm, which doesn't need a public key\n\nMany akcipher implementations (like ECDSA) support only signature\nverifications, so they don't have all callbacks defined.\n\nCommit 78a0324f4a53 (\"crypto: akcipher - default implementations for\nrequest callbacks\") introduced default callbacks for sign/verify\noperations, which just return an error code.\n\nHowever, these are not enough, because before calling sign the caller would\nlikely call set_priv_key first on the instantiated transform (as the\nin-kernel testmgr does). This function does not have a default stub, so the\nkernel crashes, when trying to set a private key on an akcipher, which\ndoesn't support signature generation.\n\nI've noticed this, when trying to add a KAT vector for ECDSA signature to\nthe testmgr.\n\nWith this patch the testmgr returns an error in dmesg (as it should)\ninstead of crashing the kernel NULL ptr dereference."
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