CVE Catalog

CVE-2022-49453

MediumCVSS 5.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.26%

17th percentile - higher than 17% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the ti_sci_pm_domains driver in the Linux kernel, a check for the return value of devm_kcalloc was added. If memory allocation fails, the function returns -ENOMEM to avoid a later NULL pointer dereference.

Risk Assessment

Lack of allocation check could lead to NULL pointer dereference and system crash.

Recommendation

Install the Linux kernel update containing this fix to improve system stability.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: soc: ti: ti_sci_pm_domains: Check for null return of devm_kcalloc The allocation funciton devm_kcalloc may fail and return a null pointer, which would cause a null-pointer dereference later. It might be better to check it and directly return -ENOMEM just like the usage of devm_kcalloc in previous code.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS