CVE-2022-50276
kernel: power: supply: fix null pointer dereferencing in power_supply_get_battery_info
Severity
LowRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · September 15, 2025
Updated · July 22, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
power: supply: fix null pointer dereferencing in power_supply_get_battery_info
when kmalloc() fail to allocate memory in kasprintf(), propname will be NULL, strcmp() called by of_get_property() will cause null pointer dereference.
So return ENOMEM if kasprintf() return NULL pointer.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 4.7CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference