CVE-2022-49009 (GCVE-0-2022-49009)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-10-21 20:06 – Updated: 2026-05-11 18:51
VLAI
Title
hwmon: (asus-ec-sensors) Add checks for devm_kcalloc
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: hwmon: (asus-ec-sensors) Add checks for devm_kcalloc As the devm_kcalloc may return NULL, the return value needs to be checked to avoid NULL poineter dereference.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-10-22 13:14 UTC
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: d0ddfd241e5719d696bc0b081e260db69d368668 , < a41ec58ac352fd176d5808af847663dc890f6053 (git)
Affected: d0ddfd241e5719d696bc0b081e260db69d368668 , < 9bdc112be727cf1ba65be79541147f960c3349d8 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.18
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.18 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.0.12 , ≤ 6.0.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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