CVE-2022-3112 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.16-rc6. amvdec_set_canvases in drivers/staging/media/meson/vdec/vdec_helpers.c lacks check of the return value of kzalloc() and will cause the null pointer dereference.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Linux	Linux Kernel

Configuration 1 [-]

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	cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.16.0:rc1::::::
	cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.16.0:rc2::::::
	cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.16.0:rc3::::::
	cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.16.0:rc4::::::
	cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.16.0:rc5::::::
	cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.16.0:rc6::::::

No data.

References

Link	Providers
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2153068
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?h=v5.19-rc2&id=c8c80c996182239ff9b05eda4db50184cf3b2e99
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-3112
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-3112

History

Tue, 22 Apr 2025 14:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2022-12-14T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-04-22T14:10:40.153Z

Reserved: 2022-09-02T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-3112

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T01:00:10.219Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-12-14T21:15:12.527

Modified: 2025-04-22T14:15:20.037

Link: CVE-2022-3112

Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2022-12-13T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2022-3112 - Bugzilla

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