CVE-2022-50473

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 5.1.6-6.1.3 - Use of Uninitialized Resource in cpufreq_policy_alloc

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cpufreq: Init completion before kobject_init_and_add() In cpufreq_policy_alloc(), it will call uninitialed completion in cpufreq_sysfs_release() when kobject_init_and_add() fails. And that will cause a crash such as the following page fault in complete: BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: fffffffffffffff8 [..] RIP: 0010:complete+0x98/0x1f0 [..] Call Trace: kobject_put+0x1be/0x4c0 cpufreq_online.cold+0xee/0x1fd cpufreq_add_dev+0x183/0x1e0 subsys_interface_register+0x3f5/0x4e0 cpufreq_register_driver+0x3b7/0x670 acpi_cpufreq_init+0x56c/0x1000 [acpi_cpufreq] do_one_initcall+0x13d/0x780 do_init_module+0x1c3/0x630 load_module+0x6e67/0x73b0 __do_sys_finit_module+0x181/0x240 do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0014
EPSS Percentile 3.8%
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-908
Status published
Products (22)
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.87linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.0.18linux
linux/Kernel 5.2.0 - 5.4.229linux
linux/Kernel 5.5.0 - 5.10.163linux
linux/Kernel 6.1.0 - 6.1.4linux
Linux/Linux < 5.2
Linux/Linux 4ebe36c94aed95de71a8ce6a6762226d31c938ee - 3cdd91a9163248935720927531066b74f57aa43b
Linux/Linux 4ebe36c94aed95de71a8ce6a6762226d31c938ee - 5c51054896bcce1d33d39fead2af73fec24f40b6
Linux/Linux 4ebe36c94aed95de71a8ce6a6762226d31c938ee - 8fb4c98f20dfca1237de2e3dfdbe78d156784fd3
Linux/Linux 4ebe36c94aed95de71a8ce6a6762226d31c938ee - d88540acfc7a17079021d866de914112c396edb1
... and 12 more
Published Oct 04, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026