CVE-2022-49141

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 5.17-5.17.2 - NULL Pointer Dereference in DSA Felix Driver

Title source: llm

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: dsa: felix: fix possible NULL pointer dereference As the possible failure of the allocation, kzalloc() may return NULL pointer. Therefore, it should be better to check the 'sgi' in order to prevent the dereference of NULL pointer.

References (2)

Core 2

Core References

Patch

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b7ff8b5e75d4e91ec8c62d621aac8dfb84c57aa9

Patch

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/866b7a278cdb51eb158cd8513bc7438fc857804a

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5

EPSS 0.0020

EPSS Percentile 10.5%

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 (8)

linux/Kernel 5.17.0 - 5.17.3linux

Linux/Linux < 5.17

Linux/Linux 23ae3a7877718931474684ef4fbbaf1d1511ee84 - 866b7a278cdb51eb158cd8513bc7438fc857804a

Linux/Linux 23ae3a7877718931474684ef4fbbaf1d1511ee84 - b7ff8b5e75d4e91ec8c62d621aac8dfb84c57aa9

Linux/Linux 5.17

Linux/Linux 5.17.3 - 5.17.*

Linux/Linux 5.18

linux/linux_kernel 5.17 - 5.17.3

Published Feb 26, 2025

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026