CVE-2022-49232: 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: drm/amd/display: Fix a NULL pointer dereference in amdgpu_dm_connector_add_common_modes() In amdgpu_dm_connector_add_common_modes(), amdgpu_dm_create_common_mode() is assigned to mode and is passed to drm_mode_probed_add() directly after that. drm_mode_probed_add() passes &mode->head to list_add_tail(), and there is a dereference of it in list_add_tail() without recoveries, which could lead to NULL pointer dereference on failure of amdgpu_dm_create_common_mode(). Fix this by adding a NULL check of mode. This bug was found by a static analyzer. Builds with 'make allyesconfig' show no new warnings, and our static analyzer no longer warns about this code.

Affected products

  • Linux Linux Kernel: from 4.15, before 4.19.238 (fixed in 4.19.238); from 4.20, before 5.4.189 (fixed in 5.4.189); from 5.5, before 5.10.110 (fixed in 5.10.110); from 5.11, before 5.15.33 (fixed in 5.15.33); from 5.16, before 5.16.19 (fixed in 5.16.19); from 5.17, before 5.17.2 (fixed in 5.17.2)

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