CVE-2022-50875 — NULL Pointer Dereference in Linux
Severity
4.7MEDIUM
No vectorEPSS
0.0%
top 85.14%
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:
of: overlay: fix null pointer dereferencing in find_dup_cset_node_entry() and find_dup_cset_prop()
When kmalloc() fail to allocate memory in kasprintf(), fn_1 or fn_2 will
be NULL, and strcmp() will cause null pointer dereference.
Affected Packages4 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linux2fe0e8769df9fed5098daea7db933bc414c329d7 — 9ec5781879b4535ad59b5354b385825378e45618+6
🔴Vulnerability Details
3GHSA▶
GHSA-7394-w6hr-wqhw: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
of: overlay: fix null pointer dereferencing in find_dup_cset_node_entry() and fin↗2025-12-30
OSV▶
CVE-2022-50875: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: of: overlay: fix null pointer dereferencing in find_dup_cset_node_entry() and find↗2025-12-30
OSV▶
of: overlay: fix null pointer dereferencing in find_dup_cset_node_entry() and find_dup_cset_prop()↗2025-12-30