CVE-2022-50218

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50218
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-50218.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2022-50218
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-06-18T11:03:54.101Z
Modified
2026-05-18T05:56:59.716349171Z
Summary
iio: light: isl29028: Fix the warning in isl29028_remove()
Details

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

iio: light: isl29028: Fix the warning in isl29028_remove()

The driver use the non-managed form of the register function in isl29028_remove(). To keep the release order as mirroring the ordering in probe, the driver should use non-managed form in probe, too.

The following log reveals it:

[ 32.374955] isl29028 0-0010: remove [ 32.376861] general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000006: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI [ 32.377676] KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000030-0x0000000000000037] [ 32.379432] RIP: 0010:kernfsfindandgetns+0x28/0xe0 [ 32.385461] Call Trace: [ 32.385807] sysfsunmergegroup+0x59/0x110 [ 32.386110] dpmsysfsremove+0x58/0xc0 [ 32.386391] devicedel+0x296/0xe50 [ 32.386959] cdevdevicedel+0x1d/0xd0 [ 32.387231] devmiiodeviceunreg+0x27/0xb0 [ 32.387542] devresreleasegroup+0x319/0x3d0 [ 32.388162] i2cdeviceremove+0x93/0x1f0

Database specific 
{
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/50xxx/CVE-2022-50218.json",
    "cna_assigner": "Linux"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
2db5054ac28d4ab2eaa6c67e2d9f61fa5ba006b8
Fixed
ca63d5abf404d2934e2ac03545350de7bb8c8e96
Fixed
359f3b150eab30805fe0e4e9d616887d7257a625
Fixed
ed43fb20d3d1fca9d79db0d5faf4321a4dd58c23
Fixed
fb1888205c0782f287e5dd4ffff1f665332e868c
Fixed
fac589fb764699a4bcd288f6656b8cd0408ea968
Fixed
4f0ebfb4b9bfad2326c0b2c3cc7e37f4b9ee9eba
Fixed
a1135205b0affd255510775a27df571aca84ab4b
Fixed
06674fc7c003b9d0aa1d37fef7ab2c24802cc6ad

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-50218.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
4.11.0
Fixed
4.14.291
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
4.15.0
Fixed
4.19.256
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
4.20.0
Fixed
5.4.211
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.5.0
Fixed
5.10.137
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.11.0
Fixed
5.15.61
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.16.0
Fixed
5.18.18
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.19.0
Fixed
5.19.2

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-50218.json"