CVE-2022-49010: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: hwmon: (coretemp) Check for null before removing sysfs attrs If coretemp_add_core() gets an error then pdata->core_data[indx] is already NULL and has been kfreed. Don't pass that to sysfs_remove_group() as that will crash in sysfs_remove_group(). [Shortened for readability] [91854.020159] sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/devices/platform/coretemp.0/hwmon/hwmon2/temp20_label' <cpu offline> [91855.126115] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000188 [91855.165103] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode [91855.194506] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page [91855.224445] PGD 0 P4D 0 [91855.238508] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI ... [91855.342716] RIP: 0010:sysfs_remove_group+0xc/0x80 ... [91855.796571] Call Trace: [91855.810524] coretemp_cpu_offline+0x12b/0x1dd [coretemp] [91855.841738] ? coretemp_cpu_online+0x180/0x180 [coretemp] [91855.871107] cpuhp_invoke_callback+0x105/0x4b0 [91855.893432] cpuhp_thread_fun+0x8e/0x150 ... Fix this by checking for NULL first.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 3.0, before 4.9.335 (fixed in 4.9.335); from 4.10, before 4.14.301 (fixed in 4.14.301); from 4.15, before 4.19.268 (fixed in 4.19.268); from 4.20, before 5.4.226 (fixed in 5.4.226); from 5.5, before 5.10.158 (fixed in 5.10.158); from 5.11, before 5.15.82 (fixed in 5.15.82); …

Published 2024-10-21. Last modified 2026-06-17.