CVE-2022-50369 — NULL Pointer Dereference in Linux

CWE-476 — NULL Pointer Dereference5 documents5 sources
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 95.84%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
LinuxLinux KernelDebian Linux
Timeline
PublishedSep 17

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/vkms: Fix null-ptr-deref in vkms_release() A null-ptr-deref is triggered when it tries to destroy the workqueue in vkms->output.composer_workq in vkms_release(). KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000118-0x000000000000011f] CPU: 5 PID: 17193 Comm: modprobe Not tainted 6.0.0-11331-gd465bff130bf #24 RIP: 0010:destroy_workqueue+0x2f/0x710 ... Call Trace: ? vkms_config_debugfs_init+0x50/0x50 [vkms] __devm_drm_dev_al…

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_kernel4.20 — 5.10.173+3
▶Debianlinux/linux_kernel< 5.10.178-1+3
▶CVEListV5linux/linux6c234fe37c57627a5baf96f552afa1fae2b67d4d — 0b8f390e2251191f1b179cc87f65d54c96565f0d+5
▶debiandebian/linux< linux 6.1.20-1 (bookworm)

Patches

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

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
OSV
CVE-2022-50369: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/vkms: Fix null-ptr-deref in vkms_release() A null-ptr-deref is triggered when↗2025-09-17
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GHSA
GHSA-fv67-488v-7h86: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/vkms: Fix null-ptr-deref in vkms_release() A null-ptr-deref is triggered whe↗2025-09-17
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
kernel: drm/vkms: Fix null-ptr-deref in vkms_release()↗2025-09-17
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Debian
CVE-2022-50369: linux - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/vkms: F...↗2022
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