CVE-2022-49046 (GCVE-0-2022-49046)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-02-26 01:54
Modified
2026-05-23 15:21
Severity ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: i2c: dev: check return value when calling dev_set_name() If dev_set_name() fails, the dev_name() is null, check the return value of dev_set_name() to avoid the null-ptr-deref.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Version: 1413ef638abae4ab5621901cf4d8ef08a4a48ba6
Version: 1413ef638abae4ab5621901cf4d8ef08a4a48ba6
Version: 1413ef638abae4ab5621901cf4d8ef08a4a48ba6
Version: 1413ef638abae4ab5621901cf4d8ef08a4a48ba6
Version: 1c1b4327970c79c1a2d0c3becfc12b9696177c55
Version: c0d34399045609eda76882fa6d01fdfaf5b20d38
Version: f1f3b4150baf7c3aa6b4e6b81b8ff1909996d507
Version: a612c4ece2eb757011ae88a8410b48e523220b8d
Version: 1bed86cfe5cb4529d036a14980d379aee8539982
Version: 8a231148135d2d08a3ef721d438cd468ea4209d2
Version: 4.4.225   ≤
Version: 4.9.225   ≤
Version: 4.14.182   ≤
Version: 4.19.125   ≤
Version: 5.4.43   ≤
Version: 5.6.15   ≤
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