CVE-2022-49459 (GCVE-0-2022-49459)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-02-26 02:13 – Updated: 2025-10-01 19:46
VLAI?
Title
thermal/drivers/broadcom: Fix potential NULL dereference in sr_thermal_probe
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: thermal/drivers/broadcom: Fix potential NULL dereference in sr_thermal_probe platform_get_resource() may return NULL, add proper check to avoid potential NULL dereferencing.
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: 250e211057c7237dc75634b1372a1a3bd58dcd96 , < b3461ccaa5d2588568d865faee285512ad448049 (git)
Affected: 250e211057c7237dc75634b1372a1a3bd58dcd96 , < 79098339ac2065f4b4352ef5921628970b6f47e6 (git)
Affected: 250e211057c7237dc75634b1372a1a3bd58dcd96 , < ef1235c6514a58f274246cf4a2d5f4e40af539ce (git)
Affected: 250e211057c7237dc75634b1372a1a3bd58dcd96 , < ee9b6b02e8c140323ed46d6602d805ea735c7719 (git)
Affected: 250e211057c7237dc75634b1372a1a3bd58dcd96 , < 61621e042c22b47d1eadee617bdd26835294b425 (git)
Affected: 250e211057c7237dc75634b1372a1a3bd58dcd96 , < e20d136ec7d6f309989c447638365840d3424c8e (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 5.1
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.1 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.198 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.121 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.46 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.17.14 , ≤ 5.17.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.18.3 , ≤ 5.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.19 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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