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CVE-2022-49484 (GCVE-0-2022-49484)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-02-26 02:13 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:00
VLAI
Title
mt76: mt7915: fix possible NULL pointer dereference in mt7915_mac_fill_rx_vector
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mt76: mt7915: fix possible NULL pointer dereference in mt7915_mac_fill_rx_vector Fix possible NULL pointer dereference in mt7915_mac_fill_rx_vector routine if the chip does not support dbdc and the hw reports band_idx set to 1.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-10-01 19:39 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 78fc30a21cf1175e97567fa5153c0efc7d955a45 , < 268e8ef187eb8780d021b0e4f5ffa92dee5c4983 (git)
Affected: 78fc30a21cf1175e97567fa5153c0efc7d955a45 , < 62fdc974894eec80d678523458cf99bbdb887e22 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.12
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.12 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.18.3 , ≤ 5.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.19 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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