CVE-2022-50509

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference

Publication date:

07/10/2025

Last modified:

05/02/2026

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: coda: Add check for kmalloc As the kmalloc may return NULL pointer, it should be better to check the return value in order to avoid NULL poineter dereference, same as the others.

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::::::::	3.19 (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-2022-50509

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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