CVE-2022-49072

MEDIUM

Linux kernel - Null Pointer Dereference

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: gpio: Restrict usage of GPIO chip irq members before initialization GPIO chip irq members are exposed before they could be completely initialized and this leads to race conditions. One such issue was observed for the gc->irq.domain variable which was accessed through the I2C interface in gpiochip_to_irq() before it could be initialized by gpiochip_add_irqchip(). This resulted in Kernel NULL pointer dereference. Following are the logs for reference :- kernel: Call Trace: kernel: gpiod_to_irq+0x53/0x70 kernel: acpi_dev_gpio_irq_get_by+0x113/0x1f0 kernel: i2c_acpi_get_irq+0xc0/0xd0 kernel: i2c_device_probe+0x28a/0x2a0 kernel: really_probe+0xf2/0x460 kernel: RIP: 0010:gpiochip_to_irq+0x47/0xc0 To avoid such scenarios, restrict usage of GPIO chip irq members before they are completely initialized.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0025
EPSS Percentile 16.0%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-476
Status published
Products (20)
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.34linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 5.16.20linux
linux/Kernel 5.17.0 - 5.17.3linux
linux/Kernel 5.3.0 - 5.10.111linux
Linux/Linux < 5.3
Linux/Linux 44dfa46aaf7cf594ac89bc1a0c0e56c498b31269
Linux/Linux 48057ed1840fde9239b1e000bea1a0a1f07c5e99 - 0912cf021fb5749372b3782611d8b1de4986c13a
Linux/Linux 48057ed1840fde9239b1e000bea1a0a1f07c5e99 - 2c1fa3614795e2b24da1ba95de0b27b8f6ea4537
Linux/Linux 48057ed1840fde9239b1e000bea1a0a1f07c5e99 - 5467801f1fcbdc46bc7298a84dbf3ca1ff2a7320
Linux/Linux 48057ed1840fde9239b1e000bea1a0a1f07c5e99 - 7e88a50704b0c49ad3f2d11e8b963341cf68a89f
... and 10 more
Published Feb 26, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026