NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-tools-libs-devel (opens in a new tab)
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- published14 Dec 2022
- disclosed13 Dec 2022
Introduced: 13 Dec 2022
CVE-2022-3112 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:9.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-tools-libs-devel package and not the kernel-tools-libs-devel package as distributed by RHEL.
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.