CVE-2022-3113: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.16-rc6. mtk_vcodec_fw_vpu_init in drivers/media/platform/mtk-vcodec/mtk_vcodec_fw_vpu.c lacks check of the return value of devm_kzalloc() and will cause the null pointer dereference.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: before 5.16.0 (fixed in 5.16.0); version 5.16.0 only

Published 2022-12-14. Last modified 2026-06-17.