linux-cve-announce - CVE-2022-50502: mm: /proc/pid/smaps

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Message-ID: <2025100421-CVE-2022-50502-c819@gregkh>
Date: Sat,  4 Oct 2025 17:51:27 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2022-50502: mm: /proc/pid/smaps_rollup: fix no vma's null-deref

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>

Description
===========

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mm: /proc/pid/smaps_rollup: fix no vma's null-deref

Commit 258f669e7e88 ("mm: /proc/pid/smaps_rollup: convert to single value
seq_file") introduced a null-deref if there are no vma's in the task in
show_smaps_rollup.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2022-50502 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Issue introduced in 4.19 with commit 258f669e7e88c18edbc23fe5ce00a476b924551f and fixed in 5.4.221 with commit 6bb8769326c46db3058780c0640dcc49d8187b24

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2022-50502
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	fs/proc/task_mmu.c


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6bb8769326c46db3058780c0640dcc49d8187b24