CVE-2022-49392 (GCVE-0-2022-49392)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-02-26 02:11 – Updated: 2025-10-01 19:46
VLAI?
Title
serial: 8250_aspeed_vuart: Fix potential NULL dereference in aspeed_vuart_probe
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: serial: 8250_aspeed_vuart: Fix potential NULL dereference in aspeed_vuart_probe platform_get_resource() may fail and return NULL, so we should better check it's return value to avoid a NULL pointer dereference.
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
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: 54da3e381c2b55289b220601f403f17df7b20597 , < 923d34ce069e8e51a4d003caa6b66a8cd6ecd0ed (git)
Affected: 54da3e381c2b55289b220601f403f17df7b20597 , < 90a6b6fc52bfdcfe9698454bf5bea26112abbcd1 (git)
Affected: 54da3e381c2b55289b220601f403f17df7b20597 , < d5f1275f101e0e8a172d300d897f5a12e87e3485 (git)
Affected: 54da3e381c2b55289b220601f403f17df7b20597 , < 0e0fd55719fa081de6f9e5d9e6cef48efb04d34a (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 5.14
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.14 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.47 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.17.15 , ≤ 5.17.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.18.4 , ≤ 5.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.19 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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