CVE-2022-50618 — Unchecked Return Value in Linux
Severity
5.5MEDIUM
No vectorEPSS
0.0%
top 85.68%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedDec 8
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mmc: meson-gx: fix return value check of mmc_add_host()
mmc_add_host() may return error, if we ignore its return value,
it will lead two issues:
1. The memory that allocated in mmc_alloc_host() is leaked.
2. In the remove() path, mmc_remove_host() will be called to
delete device, but it's not added yet, it will lead a kernel
crash because of null-ptr-deref in device_del().
Fix this by checking the return value and goto error …
Affected Packages4 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linux51c5d8447bd71b7e539c19c46a03b73c0e91fa66 — f5506e0bbb25102bd8ef2e1a3b483a0b934e454e+7
🔴Vulnerability Details
3OSV▶
CVE-2022-50618: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mmc: meson-gx: fix return value check of mmc_add_host() mmc_add_host() may return↗2025-12-08
GHSA▶
GHSA-p932-8wx4-gvmj: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mmc: meson-gx: fix return value check of mmc_add_host()
mmc_add_host() may retur↗2025-12-08