CVEvulnerability

CVE-2022-49832

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2025-05-01 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2025-05-01
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
Weaknesses
CWE-476

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: pinctrl: devicetree: fix null pointer dereferencing in pinctrl_dt_to_map Here is the BUG report by KASAN about null pointer dereference: BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in strcmp+0x2e/0x50 Read of size 1 at addr 0000000000000000 by task python3/2640 Call Trace: strcmp __of_find_property of_find_property pinctrl_dt_to_map kasprintf() would return NULL pointer when kmalloc() fail to allocate. So directly return ENOMEM, if kasprintf() return NULL pointer.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 3.5 < 4.9.334) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.10 < 4.14.300) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.15 < 4.19.267) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.20 < 5.4.225) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.156) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.80) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.0.10) • linux linux kernel 6.1

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness

References