CVE-2022-50875 (GCVE-0-2022-50875)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-12-30 12:23
Modified
2025-12-30 12:23
Severity ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: of: overlay: fix null pointer dereferencing in find_dup_cset_node_entry() and find_dup_cset_prop() When kmalloc() fail to allocate memory in kasprintf(), fn_1 or fn_2 will be NULL, and strcmp() will cause null pointer dereference.
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Linux Linux Version: 2fe0e8769df9fed5098daea7db933bc414c329d7
Version: 2fe0e8769df9fed5098daea7db933bc414c329d7
Version: 2fe0e8769df9fed5098daea7db933bc414c329d7
Version: 2fe0e8769df9fed5098daea7db933bc414c329d7
Version: 2fe0e8769df9fed5098daea7db933bc414c329d7
Version: 2fe0e8769df9fed5098daea7db933bc414c329d7
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