CVE-2022-49046: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: i2c: dev: check return value when calling dev_set_name() If dev_set_name() fails, the dev_name() is null, check the return value of dev_set_name() to avoid the null-ptr-deref.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 4.4.225, before 4.5 (fixed in 4.5); from 4.9.225, before 4.10 (fixed in 4.10); from 4.14.182, before 4.15 (fixed in 4.15); from 4.19.125, before 4.20 (fixed in 4.20); from 5.4.43, before 5.5 (fixed in 5.5); from 5.6.15, before 5.15.35 (fixed in 5.15.35); …

Published 2025-02-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.