5.5

CVE-2022-49329: vduse: Fix NULL pointer dereference on sysfs access

Modified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49329DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49329
Published 26-02-2025Last modified 11-05-2026

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2022-49329 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.26% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 17.9% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Routine

Not severe (CVSS 5.5, local access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
5.5/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.26%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 3 · Related 2

Timeline

  1. 26-02-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 11-05-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vduse: Fix NULL pointer dereference on sysfs access The control device has no drvdata. So we will get a NULL pointer dereference when accessing control device's msg_timeout attribute via sysfs: [ 132.841881][ T3644] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 00000000000000f8 [ 132.850619][ T3644] RIP: 0010:msg_timeout_show (drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/vduse_dev.c:1271) [ 132.869447][ T3644] dev_attr_show (drivers/base/core.c:2094) [ 132.870215][ T3644] sysfs_kf_seq_show (fs/sysfs/file.c:59) [ 132.871164][ T3644] ? device_remove_bin_file (drivers/base/core.c:2088) [ 132.872082][ T3644] kernfs_seq_show (fs/kernfs/file.c:164) [ 132.872838][ T3644] seq_read_iter (fs/seq_file.c:230) [ 132.873578][ T3644] ? __vmalloc_area_node (mm/vmalloc.c:3041) [ 132.874532][ T3644] kernfs_fop_read_iter (fs/kernfs/file.c:238) [ 132.875513][ T3644] __kernel_read (fs/read_write.c:440 (discriminator 1)) [ 132.876319][ T3644] kernel_read (fs/read_write.c:459) [ 132.877129][ T3644] kernel_read_file (fs/kernel_read_file.c:94) [ 132.877978][ T3644] kernel_read_file_from_fd (include/linux/file.h:45 fs/kernel_read_file.c:186) [ 132.879019][ T3644] __do_sys_finit_module (kernel/module.c:4207) [ 132.879930][ T3644] __ia32_sys_finit_module (kernel/module.c:4189) [ 132.880930][ T3644] do_int80_syscall_32 (arch/x86/entry/common.c:112 arch/x86/entry/common.c:132) [ 132.881847][ T3644] entry_INT80_compat (arch/x86/entry/entry_64_compat.S:419) To fix it, don't create the unneeded attribute for control device anymore.

CVSS metrics

5 scores · 4 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

0.26%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

18%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 0.26% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: local access, low-privilege account, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Ubuntu94 products
  • linux< 5.15.0-48.54
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws< 5.15.0-1020.24
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Linux2 products
  • linux≥ c8a6153b6c59d95c0e091f053f6f180952ade91e, < 3a7a81f4835dfda11f39fdd27586da14331896eb | ≥ c8a6153b6c59d95c0e091f053f6f180952ade91e, < 30fd1b56621e187346f65d01fe34870634b15188 | ≥ c8a6153b6c59d95c0e091f053f6f180952ade91e, < b22fdee17ec62604060fb0fda5e1414b634666e1 | ≥ c8a6153b6c59d95c0e091f053f6f180952ade91e, < b27ee76c74dc831d6e092eaebc2dfc9c0beed1c9 | 5.15
  • linux_kernel≥ 5.15, < 5.15.47 | ≥ 5.16, < 5.17.15 | ≥ 5.18, < 5.18.4 | 5.19:rc1
Debian1 product
  • linux< 5.18.5-1

3 vendors · 97 products

References

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