CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-50244
5.5 MEDIUM
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- 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
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/02cd3032b154fa02fdf90e7467abaeed889330b2 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0f63c0ddc2ea20d783d29243f4dbe0f9e95dfdec Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/139abd4c626a6f7ce02789ed5f73aa2256e0542b Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/22511eefa61db26e12c97dd7ada3071dbdfcb004 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2f5fd31b2f24b9b8a80ab566fd8c4e1e94cb4339 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/361412dae1690d4b5df6f92fc943cdc773c95cbc Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/82e5481428faf11c79b9c094dd24a1849bbf64ac Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/82e68432668ae75b4c814d160f6987ecb0681273 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c4b2e35df919d99bbbed033c2fa0b607f9f463b5 Patch