CVE-2022-3114

medium

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.16-rc6. imx_register_uart_clocks in drivers/clk/imx/clk.c lacks check of the return value of kcalloc() and will cause the null pointer dereference.

References

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?h=v5.19-rc2&id=ed713e2bc093239ccd380c2ce8ae9e4162f5c037

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2153054

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2022-12-14

Updated: 2025-04-22

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H