CVEvulnerability

CVE-2022-50244

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2025-09-15 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2025-09-15
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: cxl: fix possible null-ptr-deref in cxl_pci_init_afu|adapter() If device_register() fails in cxl_pci_afu|adapter(), the device is not added, device_unregister() can not be called in the error path, otherwise it will cause a null-ptr-deref because of removing not added device. As comment of device_register() says, it should use put_device() to give up the reference in the error path. So split device_unregister() into device_del() and put_device(), then goes to put dev when register fails.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 3.18 < 4.9.337) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.10 < 4.14.303) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.15 < 4.19.270) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.20 < 5.4.229) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.163) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.86) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.0.16) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.1 < 6.1.2)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness

References