CVE-2022-49472

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-49472
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-49472.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2022-49472
Downstream
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Published
2025-02-26T07:01:23Z
Modified
2025-08-09T20:01:26Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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

net: phy: micrel: Allow probing without .driver_data

Currently, if the .probe element is present in the phydriver structure and the .driverdata is not, a NULL pointer dereference happens.

Allow passing .probe without .driver_data by inserting NULL checks for priv->type.

References

Affected packages