CVE-2022-50181 (GCVE-0-2022-50181)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-06-18 11:03
Modified
2025-06-18 11:03
Severity ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: virtio-gpu: fix a missing check to avoid NULL dereference 'cache_ent' could be set NULL inside virtio_gpu_cmd_get_capset() and it will lead to a NULL dereference by a lately use of it (i.e., ptr = cache_ent->caps_cache). Fix it with a NULL check. [ kraxel: minor codestyle fixup ]
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Linux Linux Version: 62fb7a5e10962ac6ae2a2d2dbd3aedcb2a3e3257
Version: 62fb7a5e10962ac6ae2a2d2dbd3aedcb2a3e3257
Version: 62fb7a5e10962ac6ae2a2d2dbd3aedcb2a3e3257
Version: 62fb7a5e10962ac6ae2a2d2dbd3aedcb2a3e3257
Version: 62fb7a5e10962ac6ae2a2d2dbd3aedcb2a3e3257
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