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medium 5.5

CVE-2022-49608 json

pinctrl: ralink: Check for null return of devm_kcalloc

published 2025-02-26 20 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2022-54624

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 19%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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

pinctrl: ralink: Check for null return of devm_kcalloc

Because of the possible failure of the allocation, data->domains might be NULL pointer and will cause the dereference of the NULL pointer later. Therefore, it might be better to check it and directly return -ENOMEM without releasing data manually if fails, because the comment of the devm_kmalloc() says "Memory allocated with this function is automatically freed on driver detach.".

Patch / fix

  • Linux Linux 4.19.254, 5.4.208, 5.10.134, 5.15.58, 5.18.15, 5.19
  • linux Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 5.18.16-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49608

  • linux Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-128.144
  • linux Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-50.56
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1086.93
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1021.25
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1090.98
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1019.25
  • linux-gke Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1017.20
  • linux-ibm Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1034.38

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49608

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2022-49608 updated cvss 5.5

kernel: pinctrl: ralink: Check for null return of devm_kcalloc

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 kernel
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
13 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.27% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 19% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CNA 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • Linux Linux

Classification

Weakness
Technology feeds

References

Sources

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