CVE Catalog

CVE-2022-49618

MediumCVSS 5.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.25%

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

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the pinctrl driver for Aspeed chips had a potential NULL pointer dereference in aspeed_pinmux_set_mux(). The fix adds a null check before dereferencing.

Risk Assessment

A local attacker could cause a system crash (kernel panic) by invoking this function with invalid data.

Recommendation

Apply the Linux kernel update that includes the fix for this vulnerability.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: pinctrl: aspeed: Fix potential NULL dereference in aspeed_pinmux_set_mux() pdesc could be null but still dereference pdesc->name and it will lead to a null pointer access. So we move a null check before dereference.

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