CVE-2022-49184

net: sparx5: switchdev: fix possible NULL pointer dereference

Medium · published February 26, 2025

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
16.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: sparx5: switchdev: fix possible NULL pointer dereference

As the possible failure of the allocation, devm_kzalloc() may return NULL

pointer.

Therefore, it should be better to check the 'db' in order to prevent

the dereference of NULL pointer.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00261 · 16.9th percentile
Published
2025-02-26T01:55Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 26 FEB 01:55Z
    net: sparx5: switchdev: fix possible NULL pointer dereference
    cvelistv5