CVE-2022-50206CWE-476

CVE-2022-50206

Medium · published June 18, 2025

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
15.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

arm64: fix oops in concurrently setting insn_emulation sysctls

emulation_proc_handler() changes table->data for proc_dointvec_minmax

and can generate the following Oops if called concurrently with itself:

| Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000010

| Internal error: Oops: 96000006 [#1] SMP

| Call trace:

| update_insn_emulation_mode+0xc0/0x148

| emulation_proc_handler+0x64/0xb8

| proc_sys_call_handler+0x9c/0xf8

| proc_sys_write+0x18/0x20

| __vfs_write+0x20/0x48

| vfs_write+0xe4/0x1d0

| ksys_write+0x70/0xf8

| __arm64_sys_write+0x20/0x28

| el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x7c/0x1c0

| el0_svc_handler+0x2c/0xa0

| el0_svc+0x8/0x200

To fix this issue, keep the table->data as &insn->current_mode and

use container_of() to retrieve the insn pointer. Another mutex is

used to protect against the current_mode update but not for retrieving

insn_emulation as table->data is no longer changing.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00247 · 15.0th percentile
Weakness
CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference
Published
2025-06-18T15:15Z
Affected products (7)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel< 4.14.2914.14.291
linux/linux_kernel≥ 4.15, < 4.19.2564.19.256
linux/linux_kernel≥ 4.20, < 5.4.2115.4.211
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.5, < 5.10.1375.10.137
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.11, < 5.15.615.15.61
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.16, < 5.18.185.18.18
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.19, < 5.19.25.19.2
References (8)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 18 JUN 11:03Z
    arm64: fix oops in concurrently setting insn_emulation sysctls
    cvelistv5