vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2022-49832: kernel: pinctrl: devicetree: fix null pointer dereferencing in pinctrl_dt_to_map

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:M/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
May 1, 2025
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 10, 2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

pinctrl: devicetree: fix null pointer dereferencing in pinctrl_dt_to_map

Here is the BUG report by KASAN about null pointer dereference:

BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in strcmp+0x2e/0x50
Read of size 1 at addr 0000000000000000 by task python3/2640
Call Trace:
strcmp
__of_find_property
of_find_property
pinctrl_dt_to_map

kasprintf() would return NULL pointer when kmalloc() fail to allocate.
So directly return ENOMEM, if kasprintf() return NULL pointer.

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
Title
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