CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-50642
- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2025-12-09
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
platform/chrome: cros_ec_typec: zero out stale pointers
`cros_typec_get_switch_handles` allocates four pointers when obtaining
type-c switch handles. These pointers are all freed if failing to obtain
any of them; therefore, pointers in `port` become stale. The stale
pointers eventually cause use-after-free or double free in later code
paths. Zeroing out all pointer fields after freeing to eliminate these
stale pointers.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0ceadb5a3e45f1b81cf54bd496b40a5e50b6bd40 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6613f36a2fa5c69e528bccba8b3d831f759dad2f git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9a8aadcf0b459c1257b9477fd6402e1d5952ae07 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b610758bb3e0674644c1255cdafc2f46b7e05ff9 git.kernel.org