CVE-2022-50364 i2c: mux: reg: check return value after calling platform_get_resource()

What is CVE-2022-50364?

CVE-2022-50364 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 17 Sep 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:

i2c: mux: reg: check return value after calling platform_get_resource()

It will cause null-ptr-deref in resource_size(), if platform_get_resource() returns NULL, move calling resource_size() after devm_ioremap_resource() that will check 'res' to avoid null-ptr-deref. And use devm_platform_get_and_ioremap_resource() to simplify code.

Weakness: CWE-476

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-50364?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2022-50364?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2022-50364 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-50364 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-2022-50364, GHSA-362x-cqj5-vh62, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50364.