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  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tracing/eprobes: Do not allow eprobes     to use $stack, or % for regs While playing with event probes (eprobes), I tried to see what would happen     if I attempted to retrieve the instruction pointer (%rip) knowing that event probes do not use pt_regs.
    The result was: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000024 #PF: supervisor read     access in kernel mode #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page PGD 0 P4D 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP     PTI CPU: 1 PID: 1847 Comm: trace-cmd Not tainted 5.19.0-rc5-test+ #309 Hardware name: Hewlett-Packard HP     Compaq Pro 6300 SFF/339A, BIOS K01 v03.03 07/14/2016 RIP: 0010:get_event_field.isra.0+0x0/0x50 Code: ff 48     c7 c7 c0 8f 74 a1 e8 3d 8b f5 ff e8 88 09 f6 ff 4c 89 e7 e8 50 6a 13 00 48 89 ef 5b 5d 41 5c 41 5d e9 42     6a 13 00 66 90 <48> 63 47 24 8b 57 2c 48 01 c6 8b 47 28 83 f8 02 74 0e 83 f8 04 74 RSP:
    0018:ffff916c394bbaf0 EFLAGS: 00010086 RAX: ffff916c854041d8 RBX: ffff916c8d9fbf50 RCX: ffff916c255d2000     RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff916c255d2008 RDI: 0000000000000000 RBP: 0000000000000000 R08:
    ffff916c3a2a0c08 R09: ffff916c394bbda8 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff916c854041d8     R13: ffff916c854041b0 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000 FS: 0000000000000000(0000)     GS:ffff916c9ea40000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2:
    0000000000000024 CR3: 000000011b60a002 CR4: 00000000001706e0 Call Trace: <TASK> get_eprobe_size+0xb4/0x640     ? __mod_node_page_state+0x72/0xc0 __eprobe_trace_func+0x59/0x1a0 ? __mod_lruvec_page_state+0xaa/0x1b0 ?     page_remove_file_rmap+0x14/0x230 ? page_remove_rmap+0xda/0x170 event_triggers_call+0x52/0xe0     trace_event_buffer_commit+0x18f/0x240 trace_event_raw_event_sched_wakeup_template+0x7a/0xb0     try_to_wake_up+0x260/0x4c0 __wake_up_common+0x80/0x180 __wake_up_common_lock+0x7c/0xc0     do_notify_parent+0x1c9/0x2a0 exit_notify+0x1a9/0x220 do_exit+0x2ba/0x450 do_group_exit+0x2d/0x90
    __x64_sys_exit_group+0x14/0x20 do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0 Obviously     this is not the desired result. Move the testing for TPARG_FL_TPOINT which is only used for event probes     to the top of the $ variable check, as all the other variables are not used for event probes. Also add a     check in the register parsing % to fail if an event probe is used. (CVE-2022-50078)

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ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
245029	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2022-50078	Nessus	Misc.	8/7/2025	9/30/2025	high
166118	Amazon Linux 2 : kernel, --advisory ALAS2KERNEL-5.15-2022-008 (ALASKERNEL-5.15-2022-008)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	10/14/2022	9/25/2025	high

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