CVE-2022-49072

A flaw was found in the GPIO support in the Linux kernel. The GPIO chip IRQ members are exposed before they are completely initialized, potentially causing a NULL pointer dereference, resulting in a system crash and a denial of service.

This issue has been fixed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 via RHSA-2023:2458 [1].

[1]. https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:2458

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Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.