CVE-2022-50340: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: vimc: Fix wrong function called when vimc_init() fails In vimc_init(), when platform_driver_register(&vimc_pdrv) fails, platform_driver_unregister(&vimc_pdrv) is wrongly called rather than platform_device_unregister(&vimc_pdev), which causes kernel warning: Unexpected driver unregister! WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 14517 at drivers/base/driver.c:270 driver_unregister+0x8f/0xb0 RIP: 0010:driver_unregister+0x8f/0xb0 Call Trace: <TASK> vimc_init+0x7d/0x1000 [vimc] do_one_initcall+0xd0/0x4e0 do_init_module+0x1cf/0x6b0 load_module+0x65c2/0x7820

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 4.13, before 5.10.163 (fixed in 5.10.163); from 5.11, before 5.15.86 (fixed in 5.15.86); from 5.16, before 6.0.16 (fixed in 6.0.16); from 6.1, before 6.1.2 (fixed in 6.1.2)

Published 2025-09-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.