CVE-2022-49141

CVSS 3.1 Score 5.5 of 10 (medium)

Details

Published Feb 26, 2025

Updated: Mar 13, 2025

CWE ID 476

Summary

CVE-2022-49141 is a vulnerability affecting the Linux kernel. This issue involves a potential NULL pointer dereference in the net: dsa: felix component. The root cause is a failure in the allocation of memory using kzalloc(), which may return a NULL pointer. To mitigate the risk of dereferencing a NULL pointer, it is recommended to thoroughly check the 'sgi' variable before attempting to dereference it.

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Linux Kernel

Affected Vendors

LINUX

Advisories, Assessments, and Mitigations

https://app.recordedfuture.com/live/sc/entity/3uqamt
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49141
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-49141

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