CVE-2022-49832
CVE-2022-49832CVE-2022-49832
linux / linux_kernel
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
pinctrl: devicetree: fix null pointer dereferencing in pinctrl_dt_to_map
Here is the BUG report by KASAN about null pointer dereference:
BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in strcmp+0x2e/0x50
Read of size 1 at addr 0000000000000000 by task python3/2640
Call Trace:
strcmp
__of_find_property
of_find_property
pinctrl_dt_to_map
kasprintf() would return NULL pointer when kmalloc() fail to allocate.
So directly return ENOMEM, if kasprintf() return NULL pointer.
Scoring
| CVSS | 5.5 () |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| Last modified | 2026-11-05 |