CVE-2022-3112
Moderate
CVE-2022-3112
An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.16-rc6. amvdec_set_canvases in drivers/staging/media/meson/vdec/vdec_helpers.c lacks check of the return value of kzalloc() and will cause the null pointer dereference.
Exploit probability
0.2%
Published
December 14, 2022
Required by
Not available
Last source change
August 12, 2026
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
2 explicit affected versions
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
Open Source Vulnerabilities
CVE-2022-3112
View original source
An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.16-rc6. amvdec_set_canvases in drivers/staging/media/meson/vdec/vdec_helpers.c lacks check of the return value of kzalloc() and will cause the null pointer dereference.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2153068
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?h=v5.19-rc2&id=c8c80c996182239ff9b05eda4db50184cf3b2e99
- https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/3xxx/CVE-2022-3112.json
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-3112