CVE-2022-49608 pinctrl: ralink: Check for null return of devm_kcalloc

What is CVE-2022-49608?

CVE-2022-49608 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:

pinctrl: ralink: Check for null return of devm_kcalloc

Because of the possible failure of the allocation, data->domains might be NULL pointer and will cause the dereference of the NULL pointer later. Therefore, it might be better to check it and directly return -ENOMEM without releasing data manually if fails, because the comment of the devm_kmalloc() says "Memory allocated with this function is automatically freed on driver detach.".

Weakness: CWE-476

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-49608?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2022-49608?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2022-49608 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-49608 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-2022-49608, GHSA-6x52-x3xm-xr89, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49608.