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    "cveMetadata": {
        "cveId": "CVE-2022-50295",
        "assignerOrgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
        "state": "PUBLISHED",
        "assignerShortName": "Linux",
        "dateReserved": "2025-09-15T14:18:36.811Z",
        "datePublished": "2025-09-15T14:45:51.241Z",
        "dateUpdated": "2026-05-11T19:16:33.068Z"
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                    "lang": "en",
                    "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nio_uring/msg_ring: Fix NULL pointer dereference in io_msg_send_fd()\n\nSyzkaller produced the below call trace:\n\n BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in io_msg_ring+0x3cb/0x9f0\n Write of size 8 at addr 0000000000000070 by task repro/16399\n\n CPU: 0 PID: 16399 Comm: repro Not tainted 6.1.0-rc1 #28\n Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.11.0-2.el7\n Call Trace:\n  <TASK>\n  dump_stack_lvl+0xcd/0x134\n  ? io_msg_ring+0x3cb/0x9f0\n  kasan_report+0xbc/0xf0\n  ? io_msg_ring+0x3cb/0x9f0\n  kasan_check_range+0x140/0x190\n  io_msg_ring+0x3cb/0x9f0\n  ? io_msg_ring_prep+0x300/0x300\n  io_issue_sqe+0x698/0xca0\n  io_submit_sqes+0x92f/0x1c30\n  __do_sys_io_uring_enter+0xae4/0x24b0\n....\n RIP: 0033:0x7f2eaf8f8289\n RSP: 002b:00007fff40939718 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000001aa\n RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007f2eaf8f8289\n RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000006f71 RDI: 0000000000000004\n RBP: 00007fff409397a0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000039\n R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00000000004006d0\n R13: 00007fff40939880 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000\n  </TASK>\n Kernel panic - not syncing: panic_on_warn set ...\n\nWe don't have a NULL check on file_ptr in io_msg_send_fd() function,\nso when file_ptr is NUL src_file is also NULL and get_file()\ndereferences a NULL pointer and leads to above crash.\n\nAdd a NULL check to fix this issue."
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                    "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0163e04ea64cc3dfaa12390286e5f2f481c3b2e3"
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                    "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/16bbdfe5fb0e78e0acb13e45fc127e9a296913f2"
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