CVSS 3.1
5.5 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2022-49019
Medium (5.5) in linux linux kernel. EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: ethernet: nixge: fix NULL dereference
In function nixge_hw_dma_bd_release() dereference of NULL pointer
priv->rx_bd_v is possible for the case of its allocation failure in
nixge_hw_dma_bd_init().
Move for() loop with priv->rx_bd_v dereference under the check for
its validity.
Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 14% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-476
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- linux:linux_kernel
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/45752af0247589e6d3dede577415bfe117b4392c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/80e82f7b440b65cf131dce10f487dc73a7046e6b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/910c0264b64ef2dad8887714a7c56c93e39a0ed3
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9256db4e45e8b497b0e993cc3ed4ad08eb2389b6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9c584d6d9cfb935dce8fc81a4c26debac0a3049b