CVE-2022-50452: net: sched: cake: fix null pointer access issue when cake_init() fails
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2022-50452 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.16% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 5.1% of scored vulnerabilities.
Not severe (CVSS 5.5, local access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources
Source freshness unavailable
How is this decided?Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 4 · Related 2Timeline
- 01-10-2025PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 11-05-2026Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: sched: cake: fix null pointer access issue when cake_init() fails When the default qdisc is cake, if the qdisc of dev_queue fails to be inited during mqprio_init(), cake_reset() is invoked to clear resources. In this case, the tins is NULL, and it will cause gpf issue. The process is as follows: qdisc_create_dflt() cake_init() q->tins = kvcalloc(...) --->failed, q->tins is NULL ... qdisc_put() ... cake_reset() ... cake_dequeue_one() b = &q->tins[...] --->q->tins is NULL The following is the Call Trace information: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000000: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007] RIP: 0010:cake_dequeue_one+0xc9/0x3c0 Call Trace: <TASK> cake_reset+0xb1/0x140 qdisc_reset+0xed/0x6f0 qdisc_destroy+0x82/0x4c0 qdisc_put+0x9e/0xb0 qdisc_create_dflt+0x2c3/0x4a0 mqprio_init+0xa71/0x1760 qdisc_create+0x3eb/0x1000 tc_modify_qdisc+0x408/0x1720 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x38e/0xac0 netlink_rcv_skb+0x12d/0x3a0 netlink_unicast+0x4a2/0x740 netlink_sendmsg+0x826/0xcc0 sock_sendmsg+0xc5/0x100 ____sys_sendmsg+0x583/0x690 ___sys_sendmsg+0xe8/0x160 __sys_sendmsg+0xbf/0x160 do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0 RIP: 0033:0x7f89e5122d04 </TASK>
CVSS metrics
4 scores · 3 sources · 2 versions- OSV · UbuntuEcosystem advisory · calculated5.5MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- OSV · DebianEcosystem advisory · calculated5.5MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS trend
Probability
0.16%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
5%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
No change 0.00 pp
From 0.16% on 04-10-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEVNot in the CISA KEV catalog.
ENISA CNWNot in the ENISA CNW catalog.
CIRCLNot in the CIRCL catalog.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Known conditions: local access, low-privilege account, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.
Ubuntu115 products
- linux< 5.4.0-139.156 | < 5.15.0-60.66
- linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
- linux-aws< 5.4.0-1096.104 | < 5.15.0-1030.34
- linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
- linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Linux2 products
- linux≥ 046f6fd5daefac7f5abdafb436b30f63bc7c602b, < 86aa1390898146f1de277bb6d2a8ed7fc7a43f12 | ≥ 046f6fd5daefac7f5abdafb436b30f63bc7c602b, < bc8301ea7e7f1bb9d2ba2fcdf7b5ec2f0792b47e | ≥ 046f6fd5daefac7f5abdafb436b30f63bc7c602b, < ae48bee2830bf216800e1447baca39541e27a12e | ≥ 046f6fd5daefac7f5abdafb436b30f63bc7c602b, < 154f4c06d9dbec1a14e91286c70b6305810302e0 | ≥ 046f6fd5daefac7f5abdafb436b30f63bc7c602b, < 1dc0a019550fd38ec6cab2d73c90df2bd659c96b | ≥ 046f6fd5daefac7f5abdafb436b30f63bc7c602b, < 51f9a8921ceacd7bf0d3f47fa867a64988ba1dcb | 4.19
- linux_kernel≥ 4.19, < 4.19.264 | ≥ 4.20, < 5.4.221 | ≥ 5.5, < 5.10.152 | ≥ 5.11, < 5.15.76 | ≥ 5.16, < 6.0.6 | 6.1:rc1
Debian1 product
- linux< 6.0.6-1
3 vendors · 118 products
