CVE-2022-49895

Medium

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cxl/region: Fix decoder allocation crash When an intermediate port's decoders have been exhausted by existing regions, and creating a new region with the port in question in it's hierarchical path is attempted, cxl_port_attach_region() fails to find a port decoder (as would be expected), and drops into the failure / cleanup path. However, during cleanup of the region reference, a sanity check attempts to dereference the decoder, which in the above case didn't exist. This causes a NULL pointer dereference BUG. To fix this, refactor the decoder allocation and de-allocation into helper routines, and in this 'free' routine, check that the decoder, @cxld, is valid before attempting any operations on it.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.5
Exploit probability—
ProductLinux Kernel
PublishedMay 1, 2025
First seenMay 1, 2025

How to fix

Update
  • linux linux_kernel6.0.8 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
linux linux_kernel6.0 ≤ v < 6.0.8, 6.16.0.8

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CVE-2022-49895 · Linux Kernel · Dark Radar