CVE-2022-50884 — NULL Pointer Dereference in Linux
Severity
5.5MEDIUM
No vectorEPSS
0.0%
top 84.94%
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: Prevent drm_copy_field() to attempt copying a NULL pointer
There are some struct drm_driver fields that are required by drivers since
drm_copy_field() attempts to copy them to user-space via DRM_IOCTL_VERSION.
But it can be possible that a driver has a bug and did not set some of the
fields, which leads to drm_copy_field() attempting to copy a NULL pointer:
[ +10.395966] Unable to handle kernel access to user memory out…
Affected Packages4 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linux22eae947bf76e236ba972f2f11cfd1b083b736ad — d213914386a0ede76a4549b41de30192fb92c595+9
🔴Vulnerability Details
3GHSA▶
GHSA-8j2h-xvv4-99jg: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm: Prevent drm_copy_field() to attempt copying a NULL pointer
There are some s↗2025-12-30
OSV▶
CVE-2022-50884: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm: Prevent drm_copy_field() to attempt copying a NULL pointer There are some str↗2025-12-30