7.8

CVE-2022-49779: linux Use After Free

CVSS: 7.8v3.1HighAnalyzed
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49779DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49779
Published 01-05-2025Last modified 11-05-2026
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2022-49779 is a high (CVSS 7.8) Use After Free vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.22% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 11.8% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
31/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.8/10
010
High · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.22%
0%100%
Low · +0.01 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 4 · Related 4
SUSE-SU-2025:01918-1SUSE-SU-2025:01966-1SUSE-SU-2025:02173-1SUSE-SU-2025:02262-1

Timeline

  1. 01-05-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 11-05-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: kprobes: Skip clearing aggrprobe's post_handler in kprobe-on-ftrace case In __unregister_kprobe_top(), if the currently unregistered probe has post_handler but other child probes of the aggrprobe do not have post_handler, the post_handler of the aggrprobe is cleared. If this is a ftrace-based probe, there is a problem. In later calls to disarm_kprobe(), we will use kprobe_ftrace_ops because post_handler is NULL. But we're armed with kprobe_ipmodify_ops. This triggers a WARN in __disarm_kprobe_ftrace() and may even cause use-after-free: Failed to disarm kprobe-ftrace at kernel_clone+0x0/0x3c0 (error -2) WARNING: CPU: 5 PID: 137 at kernel/kprobes.c:1135 __disarm_kprobe_ftrace.isra.21+0xcf/0xe0 Modules linked in: testKprobe_007(-) CPU: 5 PID: 137 Comm: rmmod Not tainted 6.1.0-rc4-dirty #18 [...] Call Trace: <TASK> __disable_kprobe+0xcd/0xe0 __unregister_kprobe_top+0x12/0x150 ? mutex_lock+0xe/0x30 unregister_kprobes.part.23+0x31/0xa0 unregister_kprobe+0x32/0x40 __x64_sys_delete_module+0x15e/0x260 ? do_user_addr_fault+0x2cd/0x6b0 do_syscall_64+0x3a/0x90 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd [...] For the kprobe-on-ftrace case, we keep the post_handler setting to identify this aggrprobe armed with kprobe_ipmodify_ops. This way we can disarm it correctly.

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 3 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.22%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

12%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.01 pp

From 0.21% on 22-09-2026

22-09-202622-10-2026
EPSS score
0.22%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Ubuntu109 products
  • linux< 5.4.0-144.161 | < 5.15.0-67.74
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws< 5.4.0-1097.105 | < 5.15.0-1031.35
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Linux2 products
  • linux≥ 0bc11ed5ab60c135aa764a62c02cd5ea68289de4, < 7b0007b28dd970176f2e297c06ae63eea2447127 | ≥ 0bc11ed5ab60c135aa764a62c02cd5ea68289de4, < 7d606ae1abcc3eab5408e42444d789dc7def51b8 | ≥ 0bc11ed5ab60c135aa764a62c02cd5ea68289de4, < c49cc2c059b503e962c2f13a806c105f9b757df4 | ≥ 0bc11ed5ab60c135aa764a62c02cd5ea68289de4, < 55788ebbe8b365b4375bd56b4ba7db79d393a370 | ≥ 0bc11ed5ab60c135aa764a62c02cd5ea68289de4, < 5dd7caf0bdc5d0bae7cf9776b4d739fb09bd5ebb | 5.4
  • linux_kernel≥ 5.4, < 5.4.225 | ≥ 5.5, < 5.10.156 | ≥ 5.11, < 5.15.80 | ≥ 5.16, < 6.0.10 | 6.1:rc1 | 6.1:rc2 | 6.1:rc3 | 6.1:rc4 | 6.1:rc5
Debian1 product
  • linux< 6.0.10-1

3 vendors · 112 products

References

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