CVE-2022-3112

kernel: media: meson: NULL pointer dereference in amvdec_add_ts()

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

5.5

CVSS 3.1

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Published · December 13, 2022

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.16-rc6. amvdec_set_canvases in drivers/staging/media/meson/vdec/vdec_helpers.c lacks check of the return value of kzalloc() and will cause the null pointer dereference.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 5.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference