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CVE-2022-49499 (GCVE-0-2022-49499)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-02-26 02:13 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:01
VLAI
Title
drm/msm: Fix null pointer dereferences without iommu
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/msm: Fix null pointer dereferences without iommu Check if 'aspace' is set before using it as it will stay null without IOMMU, such as on msm8974.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-10-01 19:38 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: bc2112583a0b473f5c4ba87c00da84abd5d0b3fd , < f09937e80f9bc792965476c9a528f26c8fdc9179 (git)
Affected: bc2112583a0b473f5c4ba87c00da84abd5d0b3fd , < 36a1d1bda77e1851bddfa9cf4e8ada94476dbaff (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.18
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.18 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.18.3 , ≤ 5.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.19 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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