CVE-2022-50538

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
07/10/2025
Last modified:
08/10/2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br /> <br /> vme: Fix error not catched in fake_init()<br /> <br /> In fake_init(), __root_device_register() is possible to fail but it&amp;#39;s<br /> ignored, which can cause unregistering vme_root fail when exit.<br /> <br /> general protection fault,<br /> probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc000000008c<br /> KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000460-0x0000000000000467]<br /> RIP: 0010:root_device_unregister+0x26/0x60<br /> Call Trace:<br /> <br /> __x64_sys_delete_module+0x34f/0x540<br /> do_syscall_64+0x38/0x90<br /> entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd<br /> <br /> Return error when __root_device_register() fails.

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