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

tracing/hist: Fix out-of-bound write on 'action_data.var_ref_idx'

When generate a synthetic event with many params and then create a trace
action for it [1], kernel panic happened [2].

It is because that in trace_action_create() 'data->n_params' is up to
SYNTH_FIELDS_MAX (current value is 64), and array 'data->var_ref_idx'
keeps indices into array 'hist_data->var_refs' for each synthetic event
param, but the length of 'data->var_ref_idx' is TRACING_MAP_VARS_MAX
(current value is 16), so out-of-bound write happened when 'data->n_params'
more than 16. In this case, 'data->match_data.event' is overwritten and
eventually cause the panic.

To solve the issue, adjust the length of 'data->var_ref_idx' to be
SYNTH_FIELDS_MAX and add sanity checks to avoid out-of-bound write.

[1]
# cd /sys/kernel/tracing/
# echo "my_synth_event int v1; int v2; int v3; int v4; int v5; int v6;\
int v7; int v8; int v9; int v10; int v11; int v12; int v13; int v14;\
int v15; int v16; int v17; int v18; int v19; int v20; int v21; int v22;\
int v23; int v24; int v25; int v26; int v27; int v28; int v29; int v30;\
int v31; int v32; int v33; int v34; int v35; int v36; int v37; int v38;\
int v39; int v40; int v41; int v42; int v43; int v44; int v45; int v46;\
int v47; int v48; int v49; int v50; int v51; int v52; int v53; int v54;\
int v55; int v56; int v57; int v58; int v59; int v60; int v61; int v62;\
int v63" >> synthetic_events
# echo 'hist:keys=pid:ts0=common_timestamp.usecs if comm=="bash"' >> \
events/sched/sched_waking/trigger
# echo "hist:keys=next_pid:onmatch(sched.sched_waking).my_synth_event(\
pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,\
pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,\
pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,\
pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid)" >> events/sched/sched_switch/trigger

[2]
BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffff91c900000000
PGD 61001067 P4D 61001067 PUD 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
CPU: 2 PID: 322 Comm: bash Tainted: G W 6.1.0-rc8+ #229
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS
rel-1.15.0-0-g2dd4b9b3f840-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:strcmp+0xc/0x30
Code: 75 f7 31 d2 44 0f b6 04 16 44 88 04 11 48 83 c2 01 45 84 c0 75 ee
c3 cc cc cc cc 0f 1f 00 31 c0 eb 08 48 83 c0 01 84 d2 74 13 <0f> b6 14
07 3a 14 06 74 ef 19 c0 83 c8 01 c3 cc cc cc cc 31 c3
RSP: 0018:ffff9b3b00f53c48 EFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffffffba958a68 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000010 RSI: ffff91c943d33a90 RDI: ffff91c900000000
RBP: ffff91c900000000 R08: 00000018d604b529 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: ffff91c9483eddb1 R11: ffff91ca483eddab R12: ffff91c946171580
R13: ffff91c9479f0538 R14: ffff91c9457c2848 R15: ffff91c9479f0538
FS: 00007f1d1cfbe740(0000) GS:ffff91c9bdc80000(0000)
knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: ffff91c900000000 CR3: 0000000006316000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__find_event_file+0x55/0x90
action_create+0x76c/0x1060
event_hist_trigger_parse+0x146d/0x2060
? event_trigger_write+0x31/0xd0
trigger_process_regex+0xbb/0x110
event_trigger_write+0x6b/0xd0
vfs_write+0xc8/0x3e0
? alloc_fd+0xc0/0x160
? preempt_count_add+0x4d/0xa0
? preempt_count_add+0x70/0xa0
ksys_write+0x5f/0xe0
do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
RIP: 0033:0x7f1d1d0cf077
Code: 64 89 02 48 c7 c0 ff ff ff ff eb bb 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 f3 0f 1e
fa 64 8b 04 25 18 00 00 00 85 c0 75 10 b8 01 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00
f0 ff ff 77 51 c3 48 83 ec 28 48 89 54 24 18 48 89 74
RSP: 002b:00007ffcebb0e568 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000143 RCX: 00007f1d1d0cf077
RDX: 0000000000000143 RSI: 00005639265aa7e0 RDI: 0000000000000001
RBP: 00005639265aa7e0 R08: 000000000000000a R09: 0000000000000142
R
---truncated---

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00018.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions
Linux Linux unaffected
Version Status Constraints
38b67e60b6b582e81f9db1b2e7176cbbfbd3e574 affected < cf79d5410a569dad1d4112b5c3c02383cca8213a
d380dcde9a07ca5de4805dee11f58a98ec0ad6ff affected < 0cb31bd88361edb96cfc622648717ba348f0f4dc
d380dcde9a07ca5de4805dee11f58a98ec0ad6ff affected < 15697f653399253f9be4ed2a1e03d795f3cfee94
d380dcde9a07ca5de4805dee11f58a98ec0ad6ff affected < b4efdc219fb8cfa066c7042e636ab8ad6d7e7494
d380dcde9a07ca5de4805dee11f58a98ec0ad6ff affected < 04241956ce8825ff06e06e4083e7b692e9d5f712
d380dcde9a07ca5de4805dee11f58a98ec0ad6ff affected < 82470f7d9044842618c847a7166de2b7458157a7
c78a2baf5e1fe1b38121d6b54bab77ccb81a1a86 affected —
Linux Linux affected
Version Status Constraints
5.6 affected —
0 unaffected < 5.6
5.4.229 unaffected ≤ 5.4.*
5.10.163 unaffected ≤ 5.10.*
5.15.87 unaffected ≤ 5.15.*
6.0.18 unaffected ≤ 6.0.*
6.1.4 unaffected ≤ 6.1.*
6.2 unaffected ≤ *

Configuration 1 [-]

OR cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Wed, 04 Feb 2026 20:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Weaknesses CWE-787
CPEs cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.0, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}

 cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}

Wed, 08 Oct 2025 13:45:00 +0000

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Wed, 08 Oct 2025 00:15:00 +0000

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{'score': 7.0, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}

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Tue, 07 Oct 2025 15:30:00 +0000

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Description In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tracing/hist: Fix out-of-bound write on 'action_data.var_ref_idx' When generate a synthetic event with many params and then create a trace action for it [1], kernel panic happened [2]. It is because that in trace_action_create() 'data->n_params' is up to SYNTH_FIELDS_MAX (current value is 64), and array 'data->var_ref_idx' keeps indices into array 'hist_data->var_refs' for each synthetic event param, but the length of 'data->var_ref_idx' is TRACING_MAP_VARS_MAX (current value is 16), so out-of-bound write happened when 'data->n_params' more than 16. In this case, 'data->match_data.event' is overwritten and eventually cause the panic. To solve the issue, adjust the length of 'data->var_ref_idx' to be SYNTH_FIELDS_MAX and add sanity checks to avoid out-of-bound write. [1] # cd /sys/kernel/tracing/ # echo "my_synth_event int v1; int v2; int v3; int v4; int v5; int v6;\ int v7; int v8; int v9; int v10; int v11; int v12; int v13; int v14;\ int v15; int v16; int v17; int v18; int v19; int v20; int v21; int v22;\ int v23; int v24; int v25; int v26; int v27; int v28; int v29; int v30;\ int v31; int v32; int v33; int v34; int v35; int v36; int v37; int v38;\ int v39; int v40; int v41; int v42; int v43; int v44; int v45; int v46;\ int v47; int v48; int v49; int v50; int v51; int v52; int v53; int v54;\ int v55; int v56; int v57; int v58; int v59; int v60; int v61; int v62;\ int v63" >> synthetic_events # echo 'hist:keys=pid:ts0=common_timestamp.usecs if comm=="bash"' >> \ events/sched/sched_waking/trigger # echo "hist:keys=next_pid:onmatch(sched.sched_waking).my_synth_event(\ pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,\ pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,\ pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,\ pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid)" >> events/sched/sched_switch/trigger [2] BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffff91c900000000 PGD 61001067 P4D 61001067 PUD 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI CPU: 2 PID: 322 Comm: bash Tainted: G W 6.1.0-rc8+ #229 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.15.0-0-g2dd4b9b3f840-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:strcmp+0xc/0x30 Code: 75 f7 31 d2 44 0f b6 04 16 44 88 04 11 48 83 c2 01 45 84 c0 75 ee c3 cc cc cc cc 0f 1f 00 31 c0 eb 08 48 83 c0 01 84 d2 74 13 <0f> b6 14 07 3a 14 06 74 ef 19 c0 83 c8 01 c3 cc cc cc cc 31 c3 RSP: 0018:ffff9b3b00f53c48 EFLAGS: 00000246 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffffffba958a68 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: 0000000000000010 RSI: ffff91c943d33a90 RDI: ffff91c900000000 RBP: ffff91c900000000 R08: 00000018d604b529 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: ffff91c9483eddb1 R11: ffff91ca483eddab R12: ffff91c946171580 R13: ffff91c9479f0538 R14: ffff91c9457c2848 R15: ffff91c9479f0538 FS: 00007f1d1cfbe740(0000) GS:ffff91c9bdc80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: ffff91c900000000 CR3: 0000000006316000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 Call Trace: <TASK> __find_event_file+0x55/0x90 action_create+0x76c/0x1060 event_hist_trigger_parse+0x146d/0x2060 ? event_trigger_write+0x31/0xd0 trigger_process_regex+0xbb/0x110 event_trigger_write+0x6b/0xd0 vfs_write+0xc8/0x3e0 ? alloc_fd+0xc0/0x160 ? preempt_count_add+0x4d/0xa0 ? preempt_count_add+0x70/0xa0 ksys_write+0x5f/0xe0 do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd RIP: 0033:0x7f1d1d0cf077 Code: 64 89 02 48 c7 c0 ff ff ff ff eb bb 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 f3 0f 1e fa 64 8b 04 25 18 00 00 00 85 c0 75 10 b8 01 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 51 c3 48 83 ec 28 48 89 54 24 18 48 89 74 RSP: 002b:00007ffcebb0e568 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000143 RCX: 00007f1d1d0cf077 RDX: 0000000000000143 RSI: 00005639265aa7e0 RDI: 0000000000000001 RBP: 00005639265aa7e0 R08: 000000000000000a R09: 0000000000000142 R ---truncated---
Title tracing/hist: Fix out-of-bound write on 'action_data.var_ref_idx'
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Linux

Published:

Updated: 2025-10-07T15:21:14.729Z

Reserved: 2025-10-07T15:15:38.669Z

Link: CVE-2022-50553

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Status : Analyzed

Published: 2025-10-07T16:15:42.920

Modified: 2026-02-04T19:45:35.100

Link: CVE-2022-50553

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2025-10-07T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2022-50553 - Bugzilla

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Updated: 2025-10-08T13:37:01Z

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