CVE-2022-3114

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel < 5.16.0 - NULL Pointer Dereference in imx_register_uart_clocks

Title source: llm

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.16-rc6. imx_register_uart_clocks in drivers/clk/imx/clk.c lacks check of the return value of kcalloc() 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=2153054

Patch, Vendor Advisory

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?h=v5.19-rc2&id=ed713e2bc093239ccd380c2ce8ae9e4162f5c037

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5

EPSS 0.0022

EPSS Percentile 12.3%

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