CVE-2022-50842 — NULL Pointer Dereference in Linux
Severity
4.5MEDIUM
No vectorEPSS
0.0%
top 92.57%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedDec 30
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/virtio: Check whether transferred 2D BO is shmem
Transferred 2D BO always must be a shmem BO. Add check for that to prevent
NULL dereference if userspace passes a VRAM BO.
Affected Packages4 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linuxf651c8b055423057d9f41525dfdc37b4796015d1 — f134f261d76ae3d5ecf68db642eaa746ceb84cfb+5
🔴Vulnerability Details
3GHSA▶
GHSA-rf45-2mvj-wwc3: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/virtio: Check whether transferred 2D BO is shmem
Transferred 2D BO always mu↗2025-12-30
OSV▶
CVE-2022-50842: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/virtio: Check whether transferred 2D BO is shmem Transferred 2D BO always must↗2025-12-30