In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
cxl/region: Fix decoder allocation crash
When an intermediate port's decoders have been exhausted by existing
regions, and creating a new region with the port in question in it's
hierarchical path is attempted, cxl_port_attach_region() fails to find a
port decoder (as would be expected), and drops into the failure / cleanup
path.
However, during cleanup of the region reference, a sanity check attempts
to dereference the decoder, which in the above case didn't exist. This
causes a NULL pointer dereference BUG.
To fix this, refactor the decoder allocation and de-allocation into
helper routines, and in this 'free' routine, check that the decoder,
@cxld, is valid before attempting any operations on it.
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History
07 May 2025, 13:19
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Information
Published : 2025-05-01 15:16
Updated : 2025-05-07 13:19
NVD link : CVE-2022-49895
Mitre link : CVE-2022-49895
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2022-49895
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Products Affected
linux
- linux_kernel
CWE
CWE-476
NULL Pointer Dereference