CVE-2022-50091

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 5.13-5.15.60, 5.16-5.18.17, 5.19.0-5.19.1 - NULL Pointer Dereference in csdlock_debug Parameter Handling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: locking/csd_lock: Change csdlock_debug from early_param to __setup The csdlock_debug kernel-boot parameter is parsed by the early_param() function csdlock_debug(). If set, csdlock_debug() invokes static_branch_enable() to enable csd_lock_wait feature, which triggers a panic on arm64 for kernels built with CONFIG_SPARSEMEM=y and CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP=n. With CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP=n, __nr_to_section is called in static_key_enable() and returns NULL, resulting in a NULL dereference because mem_section is initialized only later in sparse_init(). This is also a problem for powerpc because early_param() functions are invoked earlier than jump_label_init(), also resulting in static_key_enable() failures. These failures cause the warning "static key 'xxx' used before call to jump_label_init()". Thus, early_param is too early for csd_lock_wait to run static_branch_enable(), so changes it to __setup to fix these.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0020
EPSS Percentile 10.3%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-476
Status published
Products (14)
linux/Kernel 5.13.0 - 5.15.61linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 5.18.18linux
linux/Kernel 5.19.0 - 5.19.2linux
Linux/Linux < 5.13
Linux/Linux 5.13
Linux/Linux 5.15.61 - 5.15.*
Linux/Linux 5.18.18 - 5.18.*
Linux/Linux 5.19.2 - 5.19.*
Linux/Linux 6.0
Linux/Linux 8d0968cc6b8ffd8496c2ebffdfdc801f949a85e5 - 05de9e2e33b1625c71aee69e353fe906dd2be88a
... and 4 more
Published Jun 18, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026