CVE-2022-50261 — Linux vulnerability

5 documents5 sources
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 97.89%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
LinuxLinux KernelDebian Linux
Timeline
PublishedSep 15

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/sti: Fix return type of sti_{dvo,hda,hdmi}_connector_mode_valid() With clang's kernel control flow integrity (kCFI, CONFIG_CFI_CLANG), indirect call targets are validated against the expected function pointer prototype to make sure the call target is valid to help mitigate ROP attacks. If they are not identical, there is a failure at run time, which manifests as either a kernel panic or thread getting killed. A proposed wa…

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages4 packages

▶NVDlinux/linux_kernel4.10 — 4.14.303+7
▶Debianlinux/linux_kernel< 5.10.178-1+3
▶CVEListV5linux/linux5402626c83a2f19da14859e2bab231a53e16ee74 — b2c92b2a3801b09b709cbefd9a9e4944b72400bf+9
▶debiandebian/linux< linux 6.1.4-1 (bookworm)

Patches

Patch: git.kernel.org ↗Patch: git.kernel.org ↗Patch: git.kernel.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
OSV
CVE-2022-50261: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/sti: Fix return type of sti_{dvo,hda,hdmi}_connector_mode_valid() With clang's↗2025-09-15
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GHSA
GHSA-578g-xfmh-7xmp: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/sti: Fix return type of sti_{dvo,hda,hdmi}_connector_mode_valid() With clang↗2025-09-15
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
kernel: drm/sti: Fix return type of sti_{dvo,hda,hdmi}_connector_mode_valid()↗2025-09-15
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Debian
CVE-2022-50261: linux - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/sti: Fi...↗2022
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