CVE-2022-50879 (GCVE-0-2022-50879)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-30 12:23 – Updated: 2026-01-02 15:05
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Title
objtool: Fix SEGFAULT
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: objtool: Fix SEGFAULT find_insn() will return NULL in case of failure. Check insn in order to avoid a kernel Oops for NULL pointer dereference.
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Linux Linux Affected: 13810435b9a7014fb92eb715f77da488f3b65b99 , < 418ef921cce2d7415fab7e3e93529227f239e4bb (git)
Affected: 13810435b9a7014fb92eb715f77da488f3b65b99 , < 0af0e115ff59d638f45416a004cdd8edb38db40c (git)
Affected: 13810435b9a7014fb92eb715f77da488f3b65b99 , < 23a249b1185cdd5bfb6971d1608ba49e589f2288 (git)
Affected: 13810435b9a7014fb92eb715f77da488f3b65b99 , < 38b9415abbd703438ebbc6fb74990bd0fbddc5b9 (git)
Affected: 13810435b9a7014fb92eb715f77da488f3b65b99 , < fcee8a2d4db404a93e690d79e7273b6ef9d33575 (git)
Affected: 13810435b9a7014fb92eb715f77da488f3b65b99 , < efb11fdb3e1a9f694fa12b70b21e69e55ec59c36 (git)
Affected: 1f7f88aa4df593db34dd1d6345213f20888687fb (git)
Affected: 1bea53df12c47517b6e487e6fed34d0c05d42905 (git)
Affected: c6f589eed3b5a9b73b3be76a719917cc905bab0e (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 4.17
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.17 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.229 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.163 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.87 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.0.17 , ≤ 6.0.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.3 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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