CVE-2022-49895

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 6.0-6.0.8 - NULL Pointer Dereference in CXL Region Decoder Allocation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cxl/region: Fix decoder allocation crash When an intermediate port's decoders have been exhausted by existing regions, and creating a new region with the port in question in it's hierarchical path is attempted, cxl_port_attach_region() fails to find a port decoder (as would be expected), and drops into the failure / cleanup path. However, during cleanup of the region reference, a sanity check attempts to dereference the decoder, which in the above case didn't exist. This causes a NULL pointer dereference BUG. To fix this, refactor the decoder allocation and de-allocation into helper routines, and in this 'free' routine, check that the decoder, @cxld, is valid before attempting any operations on it.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0014
EPSS Percentile 3.7%
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 (9)
linux/Kernel 6.0.0 - 6.0.8linux
Linux/Linux < 6.0
Linux/Linux 384e624bb211b406db40edc900bb51af8bb267d0 - 71ee71d7adcba648077997a29a91158d20c40b09
Linux/Linux 384e624bb211b406db40edc900bb51af8bb267d0 - c6813b5610ac53af73edd87a660d23a0511faa47
Linux/Linux 6.0
Linux/Linux 6.0.8 - 6.0.*
Linux/Linux 6.1
linux/linux_kernel 6.1 rc1 (3 CPE variants)
linux/linux_kernel 6.0 - 6.0.8
Published May 01, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026