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CVE-2022-50276

kernel: power: supply: fix null pointer dereferencing in power_supply_get_battery_info

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

4.7

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 · 4.7
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference