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Tracker / CVE-2022-49472

CVE-2022-49472

Medium 5.5

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 phy_driver structure and the .driver_data is not, a NULL pointer dereference happens. Allow passing .probe without .driver_data by inserting NULL checks for priv->type.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel · … → 4.14.283
linux linux_kernel · 4.15 → 4.19.247
linux linux_kernel · 4.20 → 5.4.198
linux linux_kernel · 5.11 → 5.15.46
linux linux_kernel · 5.16 → 5.17.14
linux linux_kernel · 5.18 → 5.18.3
linux linux_kernel · 5.5 → 5.10.121

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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