CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-49184
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-02-26
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: sparx5: switchdev: fix possible NULL pointer dereference
As the possible failure of the allocation, devm_kzalloc() may return NULL
pointer.
Therefore, it should be better to check the 'db' in order to prevent
the dereference of NULL pointer.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.15 < 5.15.33)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 5.16.19)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.17 < 5.17.2)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0906f3a3df07835e37077d8971aac65347f2ed57 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b375ea083fa649092cd016ac1f89a2d1fd8f8e8b Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c346791877e6ce923bb21e34b30c6f99326aa5a8 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e7e1fff76c4c57688dc7d53a3b6212182d5628d0 Patch