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TI-2022-24911 Aliases CVE-2022-49402GHSA-h7fw-6m79-qh62

ftrace: Clean up hash direct_functions on register failures

Priority LOW 25Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Local
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
—
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
None · None · High
Fix status
Partial Red Hat: 4 without a fix

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · NVD. Fix status from CNA and Red Hat.

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ftrace: Clean up hash direct_functions on register failures We see the following GPF when register_ftrace_direct fails: [ ] general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address \ 0x200000000000010: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC PTI [...] [ ] RIP: 0010:ftrace_find_rec_direct+0x53/0x70 [ ] Code: 48 c1 e0 03 48 03 42 08 48 8b 10 31 c0 48 85 d2 74 [...] [ ] RSP: 0018:ffffc9000138bc10 EFLAGS: 00010206 [ ] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffffff813e0df0 RCX: 000000000000003b [ ] RDX: 0200000000000000 RSI: 000000000000000c RDI: ffffffff813e0df0 [ ] RBP: ffffffffa00a3000 R08: ffffffff81180ce0 R09: 0000000000000001 [ ] R10: ffffc9000138bc18 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffffffff813e0df0 [ ] R13: ffffffff813e0df0 R14: ffff888171b56400 R15: 0000000000000000 [ ] FS: 00007fa9420c7780(0000) GS:ffff888ff6a00000(0000) knlGS:000000000 [ ] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ ] CR2: 000000000770d000 CR3: 0000000107d50003 CR4: 0000000000370ee0 [ ] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 [ ] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 [ ] Call Trace: [ ] <TASK> [ ] register_ftrace_direct+0x54/0x290 [ ] ? render_sigset_t+0xa0/0xa0 [ ] bpf_trampoline_update+0x3f5/0x4a0 [ ] ? 0xffffffffa00a3000 [ ] bpf_trampoline_link_prog+0xa9/0x140 [ ] bpf_tracing_prog_attach+0x1dc/0x450 [ ] bpf_raw_tracepoint_open+0x9a/0x1e0 [ ] ? find_held_lock+0x2d/0x90 [ ] ? lock_release+0x150/0x430 [ ] __sys_bpf+0xbd6/0x2700 [ ] ? lock_is_held_type+0xd8/0x130 [ ] __x64_sys_bpf+0x1c/0x20 [ ] do_syscall_64+0x3a/0x80 [ ] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae [ ] RIP: 0033:0x7fa9421defa9 [ ] Code: 00 c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 9 f8 [...] [ ] RSP: 002b:00007ffed743bd78 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000141 [ ] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00000000069d2480 RCX: 00007fa9421defa9 [ ] RDX: 0000000000000078 RSI: 00007ffed743bd80 RDI: 0000000000000011 [ ] RBP: 00007ffed743be00 R08: 0000000000bb7270 R09: 0000000000000000 [ ] R10: 00000000069da210 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000001 [ ] R13: 00007ffed743c4b0 R14: 00000000069d2480 R15: 0000000000000001 [ ] </TASK> [ ] Modules linked in: klp_vm(OK) [ ] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- One way to trigger this is: 1. load a livepatch that patches kernel function xxx; 2. run bpftrace -e 'kfunc:xxx {}', this will fail (expected for now); 3. repeat #2 => gpf. This is because the entry is added to direct_functions, but not removed. Fix this by remove the entry from direct_functions when register_ftrace_direct fails. Also remove the last trailing space from ftrace.c, so we don't have to worry about it anymore.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00281 20th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Partial Linux (Linux): 5.10.121, 5.15.46, 5.17.14 +2Red Hat: 4 without a fix

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
None
Automatable
No
Technical impact
Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
LinuxLinux5.5 and later5.10.121, 5.15.46, 5.17.14, 5.18.3, 5.19Patch availableCNA
  • Linux VendorLinux Affected 5.5 and later Fixed in 5.10.121, 5.15.46, 5.17.14, 5.18.3, 5.19 Patch available CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*5.5 to before 5.10.121; 5.11 to before 5.15.46; 5.16 to before 5.17.14; 5.18 to before 5.18.3VulnerableLinux
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 5.5 to before 5.10.121; 5.11 to before 5.15.46; 5.16 to before 5.17.14; 5.18 to before 5.18.3 Vulnerable ·Linux

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA Linux (Linux) Fixed in 5.10.121, 5.15.46, 5.17.14, 5.18.3, 5.19

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

Red Hat rating: Low. Red Hat's page for this CVE →

ProductStatusPlan or fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6AffectedNo fix planned: Out of support scope
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7AffectedNo fix planned: Out of support scope
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8AffectedNo fix planned: Out of support scope
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9AffectedNo fix yet: Fix deferred
Not affected: 1 product
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2022-49402
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-h7fw-6m79-qh62
  3. 2026-11-05 CISA SSVC decision points changed

References

Patch 5

  • TI-2025-26358 tls: fix handling of zero-length records on the rx_list KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2026-38352 netfilter: bridge: make ebt_snat ARP rewrite writable KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
  • TI-2013-05264 The (1) get_user and (2) put_user API functions in the Linux kernel before 3.5.5 on the… KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
  • TI-2022-00125 Integer overflow in kernel KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 8.4
  • TI-2013-01864 The perf_swevent_init function in kernel/events/core.c in the Linux kernel before 3.8.9… KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 8.4
  • TI-2021-05514 Heap Out-Of-Bounds Write in Netfilter IP6T_SO_SET_REPLACE KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 8.3
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