CVE-2022-50634

medium

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: power: supply: cw2015: Fix potential null-ptr-deref in cw_bat_probe() cw_bat_probe() calls create_singlethread_workqueue() and not checked the ret value, which may return NULL. And a null-ptr-deref may happen: cw_bat_probe() create_singlethread_workqueue() # failed, cw_bat->wq is NULL queue_delayed_work() queue_delayed_work_on() __queue_delayed_work() # warning here, but continue __queue_work() # access wq->flags, null-ptr-deref Check the ret value and return -ENOMEM if it is NULL.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f7e2ba8ed08138102f21f3fe6414498c93177fd8

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/97f2b4ddb0aa700d673691a7d5e44d226d22bab7

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5150b76aa2eb8bb8feb7f7a048417f9d39c3dd04

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-12-09

Updated: 2025-12-09

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.1

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

Severity: Low

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00017