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CVE-2022-50181 (GCVE-0-2022-50181)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-06-18 11:03 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:14
VLAI
Title
virtio-gpu: fix a missing check to avoid NULL dereference
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: virtio-gpu: fix a missing check to avoid NULL dereference 'cache_ent' could be set NULL inside virtio_gpu_cmd_get_capset() and it will lead to a NULL dereference by a lately use of it (i.e., ptr = cache_ent->caps_cache). Fix it with a NULL check. [ kraxel: minor codestyle fixup ]
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 62fb7a5e10962ac6ae2a2d2dbd3aedcb2a3e3257 , < 259773fc874258606c0121767a4a27466ff337eb (git)
Affected: 62fb7a5e10962ac6ae2a2d2dbd3aedcb2a3e3257 , < 39caef09666c1d8274abf9472c72bcac236dc5fb (git)
Affected: 62fb7a5e10962ac6ae2a2d2dbd3aedcb2a3e3257 , < adbdd21983fa292e53aec3eab97306b2961ea887 (git)
Affected: 62fb7a5e10962ac6ae2a2d2dbd3aedcb2a3e3257 , < 367882a5a9448b5e1ba756125308092d614cb96c (git)
Affected: 62fb7a5e10962ac6ae2a2d2dbd3aedcb2a3e3257 , < bd63f11f4c3c46afec07d821f74736161ff6e526 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 4.4
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.4 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.137 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.61 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.18.18 , ≤ 5.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.19.2 , ≤ 5.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.0 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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