CVE-2022-49177 (GCVE-0-2022-49177)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-02-26 01:55 – Updated: 2025-10-01 19:56
VLAI?
Title
hwrng: cavium - fix NULL but dereferenced coccicheck error
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: hwrng: cavium - fix NULL but dereferenced coccicheck error Fix following coccicheck warning: ./drivers/char/hw_random/cavium-rng-vf.c:182:17-20: ERROR: pdev is NULL but dereferenced.
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference
Assigner
References
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Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: 680efb33546be8960ccbb2f4e0e43034d9c93b30 , < e47b12f9415169eceda6770fcf45802e0c8d2a66 (git)
Affected: 680efb33546be8960ccbb2f4e0e43034d9c93b30 , < e6205ad58a7ac194abfb33897585b38687d797fa (git)
Affected: bc20294cc8da53c0dc0f5a076b4883be6ec96930 (git)
Affected: 7919dfd84b352782df92c1ff2f0ca4dd5328d198 (git)
Affected: cc744db61229b6c55164b8cbdfaad4caacce62f9 (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 5.17
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.17 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.17.2 , ≤ 5.17.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.18 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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