CVE-2022-50509 Affecting kernel-source package, versions <5.14.21-150400.24.184.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (15th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES154-KERNELSOURCE-14042296
  • published18 Nov 2025
  • disclosed15 Nov 2025

Introduced: 15 Nov 2025

NewCVE-2022-50509  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.4 kernel-source to version 5.14.21-150400.24.184.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-source package and not the kernel-source package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.4 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

media: coda: Add check for kmalloc

As the kmalloc may return NULL pointer, it should be better to check the return value in order to avoid NULL poineter dereference, same as the others.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1