CVE-2022-49046

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference

Publication date:

26/02/2025

Last modified:

03/11/2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: i2c: dev: check return value when calling dev_set_name() If dev_set_name() fails, the dev_name() is null, check the return value of dev_set_name() to avoid the null-ptr-deref.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.50 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

5.50

Severity 3.x

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	4.4.225 (including)	4.5 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	4.9.225 (including)	4.10 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	4.14.182 (including)	4.15 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	4.19.125 (including)	4.20 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.4.43 (including)	5.5 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.6.15 (including)	5.15.35 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.16 (including)	5.17.4 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.18:rc1::::::
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.18:rc2::::::

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CVE-2022-49046

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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