CVE-2022-50383
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Publication date: 2025-09-18
Last updated on: 2025-12-11
Assigner: kernel.org
Description
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Affected Vendors & Products
| Vendor | Product | Version / Range |
|---|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel | From 5.16 (inc) to 6.0.16 (exc) |
| linux | linux_kernel | From 6.1 (inc) to 6.1.2 (exc) |
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Exploitability
| CWE ID | Description |
|---|---|
| CWE-476 | The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL. |
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Can you explain this vulnerability to me?
This vulnerability occurs in the Linux kernel's media component for Mediatek's vcodec. When a late decode error happens, the core thread attempts to set the destination buffer as done by calling v4l2_m2m_buf_done. However, if the lat architecture calls v4l2_m2m_buf_done_and_job_finish to free the destination buffer during a decode error, the core thread may access a NULL pointer in the kernel, causing a crash.
How can this vulnerability impact me? :
This vulnerability can cause the Linux kernel to crash due to a NULL pointer dereference when handling decode errors in the Mediatek vcodec media component. Such crashes can lead to system instability, denial of service, or unexpected reboots.