CVE-2022-49488: 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/msm/mdp5: Return error code in mdp5_mixer_release when deadlock is detected There is a possibility for mdp5_get_global_state to return -EDEADLK when acquiring the modeset lock, but currently global_state in mdp5_mixer_release doesn't check for if an error is returned. To avoid a NULL dereference error, let's have mdp5_mixer_release check if an error is returned and propagate that error. Patchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/485181/

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 4.18, before 4.19.247 (fixed in 4.19.247); from 4.20, before 5.4.198 (fixed in 5.4.198); from 5.5, before 5.10.121 (fixed in 5.10.121); from 5.11, before 5.15.46 (fixed in 5.15.46); from 5.16, before 5.17.14 (fixed in 5.17.14); from 5.18, before 5.18.3 (fixed in 5.18.3)

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