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Unscored CVE-2022-50078 EUVD-2022-55347GHSA-m974-q7mp-wv4j

tracing/eprobes: Do not allow eprobes to use $stack, or % for regs

Published Jun 18, 2025 · Updated May 11, 2026 · Assigned by Linux

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Description

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

tracing/eprobes: Do not allow eprobes to use $stack, or % for regs

While playing with event probes (eprobes), I tried to see what would
happen if I attempted to retrieve the instruction pointer (%rip) knowing
that event probes do not use pt_regs. The result was:

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000024
#PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
PGD 0 P4D 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
CPU: 1 PID: 1847 Comm: trace-cmd Not tainted 5.19.0-rc5-test+ #309
Hardware name: Hewlett-Packard HP Compaq Pro 6300 SFF/339A, BIOS K01
v03.03 07/14/2016
RIP: 0010:get_event_field.isra.0+0x0/0x50
Code: ff 48 c7 c7 c0 8f 74 a1 e8 3d 8b f5 ff e8 88 09 f6 ff 4c 89 e7 e8
50 6a 13 00 48 89 ef 5b 5d 41 5c 41 5d e9 42 6a 13 00 66 90 <48> 63 47 24
8b 57 2c 48 01 c6 8b 47 28 83 f8 02 74 0e 83 f8 04 74
RSP: 0018:ffff916c394bbaf0 EFLAGS: 00010086
RAX: ffff916c854041d8 RBX: ffff916c8d9fbf50 RCX: ffff916c255d2000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff916c255d2008 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: ffff916c3a2a0c08 R09: ffff916c394bbda8
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff916c854041d8
R13: ffff916c854041b0 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff916c9ea40000(0000)
knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000000000024 CR3: 000000011b60a002 CR4: 00000000001706e0
Call Trace:
<TASK>
get_eprobe_size+0xb4/0x640
? __mod_node_page_state+0x72/0xc0
__eprobe_trace_func+0x59/0x1a0
? __mod_lruvec_page_state+0xaa/0x1b0
? page_remove_file_rmap+0x14/0x230
? page_remove_rmap+0xda/0x170
event_triggers_call+0x52/0xe0
trace_event_buffer_commit+0x18f/0x240
trace_event_raw_event_sched_wakeup_template+0x7a/0xb0
try_to_wake_up+0x260/0x4c0
__wake_up_common+0x80/0x180
__wake_up_common_lock+0x7c/0xc0
do_notify_parent+0x1c9/0x2a0
exit_notify+0x1a9/0x220
do_exit+0x2ba/0x450
do_group_exit+0x2d/0x90
__x64_sys_exit_group+0x14/0x20
do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0

Obviously this is not the desired result.

Move the testing for TPARG_FL_TPOINT which is only used for event probes
to the top of the "$" variable check, as all the other variables are not
used for event probes. Also add a check in the register parsing "%" to
fail if an event probe is used.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Linux Linux 5.15 5.15.63

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 linux 6.0.2-1 —
Debian 13 linux 6.0.2-1 —
Debian 12 linux 6.0.2-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-riscv +2 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux +1 5.15.0-53.59 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-aws 5.15.0-1023.27 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-azure 5.15.0-1023.29 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-azure-fde 5.15.0-1024.30.1 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gcp 5.15.0-1022.29 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gke 5.15.0-1020.25 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gkeop 5.15.0-1008.12 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-ibm 5.15.0-1018.21 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-intel-iotg 5.15.0-1018.23 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-kvm 5.15.0-1021.26 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-nvidia 5.15.0-1015.15 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-oracle 5.15.0-1022.28 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-raspi 5.15.0-1018.20 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-riscv +32 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-aws-5.15 +1 5.15.0-1023.27~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-azure-5.15 5.15.0-1023.29~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gcp-5.15 5.15.0-1022.29~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gke +28 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-hwe-5.15 +1 5.15.0-53.59~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-intel-iotg-5.15 5.15.0-1018.23~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-oracle-5.15 5.15.0-1022.28~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-gcp +14 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS linux-hwe-edge No fix yet —
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ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 22.04 LTS linux-realtime 5.15.0-1025.28 —

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