CVE-2012-4222 Null dereference in n/a

What is CVE-2012-4222?

CVE-2012-4222 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Google Android, published on 30 Nov 2012. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

drivers/gpu/msm/kgsl.c in the Qualcomm Innovation Center (QuIC) Graphics KGSL kernel-mode driver for Android 2.3 through 4.2 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via an application that uses crafted arguments in a local kgsl_ioctl call.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-4222?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Android.

How do I fix CVE-2012-4222?

No fix has been published for CVE-2012-4222 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2012-4222 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-4222 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-rr7r-w572-mrq7.