CVE-2022-49184 net: sparx5: switchdev: fix possible NULL pointer dereference

What is CVE-2022-49184?

CVE-2022-49184 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:

net: sparx5: switchdev: fix possible NULL pointer dereference

As the possible failure of the allocation, devm_kzalloc() may return NULL pointer. Therefore, it should be better to check the 'db' in order to prevent the dereference of NULL pointer.

Weakness: CWE-476

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-49184?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2022-49184?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2022-49184 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-49184 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 DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49184, GHSA-m6q7-6hrv-f732, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49184.