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of: overlay: fix null pointer dereferencing in find_dup_cset_node_entry() and find_dup_cset_prop()

Type: advisorySources: OSV

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: of: overlay: fix null pointer dereferencing in find_dup_cset_node_entry() and find_dup_cset_prop() When kmalloc() fail to allocate memory in kasprintf(), fn_1 or fn_2 will be NULL, and strcmp() will cause null pointer dereference.

Products
Kernel
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
5.10.163, 5.15.86, 5.4.229, 6.0.16, 6.1.2
CVEs
CVE-2022-50875
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
5 Nov 2026, 04:13 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

of: overlay: fix null pointer dereferencing in find_dup_cset_node_entry() and find_dup_cset_prop()

core-osv · Original source

Published 30 Dec 2025, 12:23 UTC

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: of: overlay: fix null pointer dereferencing in find_dup_cset_node_entry() and find_dup_cset_prop() When kmalloc() fail to allocate memory in kasprintf(), fn_1 or fn_2 will be NULL, and strcmp() will cause null pointer dereference.

osv:CVE-2022-50875

Kernel

Fixed versions: 5.4.229, 5.10.163, 5.15.86, 6.0.16, 6.1.2

Complete source record
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