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CVE-2022-50556

Status: DeferredUnscored—

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

drm: Fix potential null-ptr-deref due to drmm_mode_config_init()

drmm_mode_config_init() will call drm_mode_create_standard_properties() and won't check the ret value. When drm_mode_create_standard_properties() failed due to alloc, property will be a NULL pointer and may causes the null-ptr-deref. Fix the null-ptr-deref by adding the ret value check.

Technical details traces, logs and code from the original report
Found null-ptr-deref while testing insert module bochs:
general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address
    0xdffffc000000000c: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000060-0x0000000000000067]
CPU: 3 PID: 249 Comm: modprobe Not tainted 6.1.0-rc1+ #364
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS
rel-1.15.0-0-g2dd4b9b3f840-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:drm_object_attach_property+0x73/0x3c0 [drm]
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __drm_connector_init+0xb6c/0x1100 [drm]
 bochs_pci_probe.cold.11+0x4cb/0x7fe [bochs]
 pci_device_probe+0x17d/0x340
 really_probe+0x1db/0x5d0
 __driver_probe_device+0x1e7/0x250
 driver_probe_device+0x4a/0x120
 __driver_attach+0xcd/0x2c0
 bus_for_each_dev+0x11a/0x1b0
 bus_add_driver+0x3d7/0x500
 driver_register+0x18e/0x320
 do_one_initcall+0xc4/0x3e0
 do_init_module+0x1b4/0x630
 load_module+0x5dca/0x7230
 __do_sys_finit_module+0x100/0x170
 do_syscall_64+0x3f/0x90
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
RIP: 0033:0x7ff65af9f839

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Affected technologies (1)

⚠ AI-inferred from the description — NVD hasn't analyzed this CVE yet, these aren't verified CPEs.

Linux — Linux KernelAI

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  "sourceIdentifier": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"
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