CVE-2022-50670 — 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: omap_hsmmc: 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 erro…
Affected Packages4 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linuxa45c6cb816474cefe56059fce422a9bdcd77e0dc — f153c9e15f8961bdf38707853e15b42ea7c691d9+6
🔴Vulnerability Details
3GHSA▶
GHSA-9q54-m2hg-m35j: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mmc: omap_hsmmc: fix return value check of mmc_add_host()
mmc_add_host() may ret↗2025-12-09
OSV▶
CVE-2022-50670: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mmc: omap_hsmmc: fix return value check of mmc_add_host() mmc_add_host() may retur↗2025-12-09