CVE-2022-49618: 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: pinctrl: aspeed: Fix potential NULL dereference in aspeed_pinmux_set_mux() pdesc could be null but still dereference pdesc->name and it will lead to a null pointer access. So we move a null check before dereference.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: before 5.10.132 (fixed in 5.10.132); from 5.11, before 5.15.56 (fixed in 5.15.56); from 5.16, before 5.18.13 (fixed in 5.18.13); version 5.19 only

Published 2025-02-26. Last modified 2026-08-15.