CVE Catalog

CVE-2022-49527

MediumCVSS 5.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.26%

18th percentile - higher than 18% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the venus media driver in the Linux kernel, a NULL pointer dereference in hfi_core_deinit was fixed. When hfi_destroy sets core->ops to NULL, hfi_core_deinit could not call core_deinit, causing a bug. The fix skips the call when necessary.

Risk Assessment

Possible system crash during error handling of venus driver initialization, leading to system instability.

Recommendation

Apply the Linux kernel update containing this fix to prevent crashes related to the venus driver.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: venus: hfi: avoid null dereference in deinit If venus_probe fails at pm_runtime_put_sync the error handling first calls hfi_destroy and afterwards hfi_core_deinit. As hfi_destroy sets core->ops to NULL, hfi_core_deinit cannot call the core_deinit function anymore. Avoid this null pointer derefence by skipping the call when necessary.

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