CVE-2022-49165 media: imx-jpeg: Prevent decoding NV12M jpegs into single-planar buffers
A local attacker can cause a kernel crash by queuing mismatched buffer types in the imx-jpeg driver, leading to a denial of service.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2022-49165?
CVE-2022-49165 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 26 Feb 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
media: imx-jpeg: Prevent decoding NV12M jpegs into single-planar buffers
If the application queues an NV12M jpeg as output buffer, but then queues a single planar capture buffer, the kernel will crash with "Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference" in mxc_jpeg_addrs, prevent this by finishing the job with error.
Weakness: CWE-476
Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-49165?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Linux kernel.
How do I fix CVE-2022-49165?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Is CVE-2022-49165 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-49165 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Linux kernel
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49165, GHSA-6cj6-4hh2-hvrg, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49165.