CVE-2022-50672 json
mailbox: zynq-ipi: fix error handling while device_register() fails
published 2025-12-09 11 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2022-55733
- cvss
- —
- not scored
- cisa kev
- Not listed
- not in CISA's catalog
- epss
- 0.2%
- EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 15%
- public exploits
- 0
- none known
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mailbox: zynq-ipi: fix error handling while device_register() fails
If device_register() fails, it has two issues: 1. The name allocated by dev_set_name() is leaked. 2. The parent of device is not NULL, device_unregister() is called in zynqmp_ipi_free_mboxes(), it will lead a kernel crash because of removing not added device.
Call put_device() to give up the reference, so the name is freed in kobject_cleanup(). Add device registered check in zynqmp_ipi_free_mboxes() to avoid null-ptr-deref.
Patch / fix
- Linux Linux 5.4.229, 5.10.163, 5.15.86, 6.0.16, 6.1.2, 6.2
- linux Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 6.1.4-1
debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50672
- linux Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-144.161
- linux Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-69.76
- linux-aws Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1097.105
- linux-aws Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1033.37
- linux-gcp Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1101.110
- linux-gcp Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1031.38
- linux-gke Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1030.35
- linux-ibm Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1045.50
ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50672
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- kernel-64kb SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-ESPOS 5.14.21-150400.24.194.1
- kernel-syms SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS +1 more 5.14.21-150400.24.194.1
- kernel-source SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS +1 more 5.14.21-150400.24.194.1
- kernel-default SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE Micro 5.4 +5 more 5.14.21-150400.24.194.1
- kernel-obs-build SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS +1 more 5.14.21-150400.24.194.1
- kernel-default-base SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE Micro 5.4 +3 more 5.14.21-150400.24.194.1.150400.24.98.3
- kernel-rt SLE Micro 5.4, SLE Micro 5.3 5.14.21-150400.15.142.1
- kernel-source-rt SLE Micro 5.4, SLE Micro 5.3 5.14.21-150400.15.142.1
suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:0617-1SUSE-SU-2026:0411-1SUSE-SU-2026:0317-1SUSE-SU-2026:0263-1
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/b3a5c76f61e2b380e29dfc6705854ca1ee85501d commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/a39b4de0804f9fe0ae911b359ffd4afe7d9d933b commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/4f05d8e2fb3ab702c2633a74571e1b31cb579985 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/f2d63cefc012cafe1b7651bbf3302f8bcd8bea4a commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/3fcf079958c00d83c51e4f250abf2c77fe9cc1b9 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/a6792a0cdef0b1c2d77920246283a72537e60e94 commit
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-2022-50672 updated cvss 5.5
kernel: mailbox: zynq-ipi: fix error handling while device_register() fails
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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 kernelnot 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
Exploit prediction
0.24% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 15% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).
Affected products
- Linux Linux
Classification
- Technology feeds
References
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/b3a5c76f61e2b380e29dfc6705854ca1ee85501d
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/a39b4de0804f9fe0ae911b359ffd4afe7d9d933b
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/4f05d8e2fb3ab702c2633a74571e1b31cb579985
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/f2d63cefc012cafe1b7651bbf3302f8bcd8bea4a
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/3fcf079958c00d83c51e4f250abf2c77fe9cc1b9
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/a6792a0cdef0b1c2d77920246283a72537e60e94
Sources
- CVE List CVE-2022-50672
- NVD CVE-2022-50672
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