CVE-2022-50049

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 5.17-5.19.3 - NULL Pointer Dereference in DPCM BE Substream Handling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ASoC: DPCM: Don't pick up BE without substream When DPCM tries to add valid BE connections at dpcm_add_paths(), it doesn't check whether the picked BE actually supports for the given stream direction. Due to that, when an asymmetric BE stream is present, it picks up wrongly and this may result in a NULL dereference at a later point where the code assumes the existence of a corresponding BE substream. This patch adds the check for the presence of the substream for the target BE for avoiding the problem above. Note that we have already some fix for non-existing BE substream at commit 6246f283d5e0 ("ASoC: dpcm: skip missing substream while applying symmetry"). But the code path we've hit recently is rather happening before the previous fix. So this patch tries to fix at picking up a BE instead of parsing BE lists.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0015
EPSS Percentile 4.9%
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 (10)
linux/Kernel 5.17.0 - 5.19.4linux
Linux/Linux < 5.17
Linux/Linux 5.17
Linux/Linux 5.19.4 - 5.19.*
Linux/Linux 6.0
Linux/Linux bbf7d3b1c4f40eb02dd1dffb500ba00b0bff0303 - 6a840e8ef6b6c56d1b7e6a555adc31135e517875
Linux/Linux bbf7d3b1c4f40eb02dd1dffb500ba00b0bff0303 - 754590651ccbbcc74a7c20907be4bb15d642bde3
Linux/Linux c474bb800000d1a93624f6d060e2bba16edf6820 - aa803e6ecac78e93b24ebefa17c207d6392d8ad4
linux/linux_kernel 6.0 rc1
linux/linux_kernel 5.17 - 5.19.4
Published Jun 18, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026