CVE-2022-3113

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel < 5.16.0 - NULL Pointer Dereference in mtk_vcodec_fw_vpu_init

Title source: llm

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.16-rc6. mtk_vcodec_fw_vpu_init in drivers/media/platform/mtk-vcodec/mtk_vcodec_fw_vpu.c lacks check of the return value of devm_kzalloc() and will cause the null pointer dereference.

References (2)

Core 2

Core References

Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2153053

Patch, Vendor Advisory

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?h=v5.19-rc2&id=e25a89f743b18c029bfbe5e1663ae0c7190912b0

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5

EPSS 0.0065

EPSS Percentile 46.6%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE

CWE-476

Status published

Products (2)

linux/linux_kernel 5.16.0 (7 CPE variants)

linux/linux_kernel < 5.16.0

Published Dec 14, 2022

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026