CVE-2022-50653 — 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 9
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mmc: atmel-mci: 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().
So fix this by checking the return value and calling…
Affected Packages4 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linux7d2be0749a59096a334c94dc48f43294193cb8ed — 99a6cdfa2cf05028b52f6d8ee85ccc5f8b71b4a2+7
🔴Vulnerability Details
3GHSA▶
GHSA-ph9x-gxv9-666v: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mmc: atmel-mci: fix return value check of mmc_add_host()
mmc_add_host() may retu↗2025-12-09
OSV▶
CVE-2022-50653: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mmc: atmel-mci: fix return value check of mmc_add_host() mmc_add_host() may return↗2025-12-09