CVE-2022-49984 (GCVE-0-2022-49984)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-06-18 11:00 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:10
VLAI
Title
HID: steam: Prevent NULL pointer dereference in steam_{recv,send}_report
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: HID: steam: Prevent NULL pointer dereference in steam_{recv,send}_report It is possible for a malicious device to forgo submitting a Feature Report. The HID Steam driver presently makes no prevision for this and de-references the 'struct hid_report' pointer obtained from the HID devices without first checking its validity. Let's change that.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: c164d6abf3841ffacfdb757c10616f9cb1f67276 , < c20d03b82a2e3ddbb555dad4d4f3374a9763222c (git)
Affected: c164d6abf3841ffacfdb757c10616f9cb1f67276 , < fa2b822d86be5b5ad54fe4fa2daca464e71ff90a (git)
Affected: c164d6abf3841ffacfdb757c10616f9cb1f67276 , < dc815761948ab5b8c94db6cb53c95103588f16ae (git)
Affected: c164d6abf3841ffacfdb757c10616f9cb1f67276 , < 989560b6d9e00d99e07bc33067fa1c770994bf4d (git)
Affected: c164d6abf3841ffacfdb757c10616f9cb1f67276 , < dee1e51b54794e90763e70a3c78f27ba4fa930ec (git)
Affected: c164d6abf3841ffacfdb757c10616f9cb1f67276 , < cd11d1a6114bd4bc6450ae59f6e110ec47362126 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 4.18
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.18 (semver)
Unaffected: 4.19.257 , ≤ 4.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.212 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.141 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.65 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.19.7 , ≤ 5.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.0 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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