CVE-2022-50359

media: cx88: Fix a null-ptr-deref bug in buffer_prepare()

Medium · published September 17, 2025

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
11.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

media: cx88: Fix a null-ptr-deref bug in buffer_prepare()

When the driver calls cx88_risc_buffer() to prepare the buffer, the

function call may fail, resulting in a empty buffer and null-ptr-deref

later in buffer_queue().

The following log can reveal it:

[ 41.822762] general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000000: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI

[ 41.824488] KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007]

[ 41.828027] RIP: 0010:buffer_queue+0xc2/0x500

[ 41.836311] Call Trace:

[ 41.836945] __enqueue_in_driver+0x141/0x360

[ 41.837262] vb2_start_streaming+0x62/0x4a0

[ 41.838216] vb2_core_streamon+0x1da/0x2c0

[ 41.838516] __vb2_init_fileio+0x981/0xbc0

[ 41.839141] __vb2_perform_fileio+0xbf9/0x1120

[ 41.840072] vb2_fop_read+0x20e/0x400

[ 41.840346] v4l2_read+0x215/0x290

[ 41.840603] vfs_read+0x162/0x4c0

Fix this by checking the return value of cx88_risc_buffer()

[hverkuil: fix coding style issues]

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
0.00213 · 11.0th percentile
Published
2025-09-17T14:56Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 17 SEP 14:56Z
    media: cx88: Fix a null-ptr-deref bug in buffer_prepare()
    cvelistv5