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Tracker / CVE-2022-50415

CVE-2022-50415

Medium 5.5

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: parisc: led: Fix potential null-ptr-deref in start_task() start_task() calls create_singlethread_workqueue() and not checked the ret value, which may return NULL. And a null-ptr-deref may happen: start_task() create_singlethread_workqueue() # failed, led_wq is NULL queue_delayed_work() queue_delayed_work_on() __queue_delayed_work() # warning here, but continue __queue_work() # access wq->flags, null-ptr-deref Check the ret value and return -ENOMEM if it is NULL.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel · 2.6.15 → 4.9.337
linux linux_kernel · 4.10 → 4.14.303
linux linux_kernel · 4.15 → 4.19.270
linux linux_kernel · 4.20 → 5.4.229
linux linux_kernel · 5.11 → 5.15.87
linux linux_kernel · 5.16 → 6.0.18
linux linux_kernel · 5.5 → 5.10.163
linux linux_kernel · 6.1 → 6.1.4

Analysis

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