CVE-2022-50481

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference

Publication date:

04/10/2025

Last modified:

23/01/2026

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cxl: fix possible null-ptr-deref in cxl_guest_init_afu|adapter() If device_register() fails in cxl_register_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.

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::::::::	4.6 (including)	4.9.337 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	4.10 (including)	4.14.303 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	4.15 (including)	4.19.270 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	4.20 (including)	5.4.229 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.5 (including)	5.10.163 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.11 (including)	5.15.86 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.16 (including)	6.0.16 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.1 (including)	6.1.2 (excluding)

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CVE-2022-50481

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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