CVE-2022-50842

Updated on 30 Dec 2025

Severity

4.5 Medium severity

Details

CVSS score
4.5

Overview

About vulnerability

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

drm/virtio: Check whether transferred 2D BO is shmem

Transferred 2D BO always must be a shmem BO. Add check for that to prevent NULL dereference if userspace passes a VRAM BO.

Details

Affected packages:
kernel @ 4.18.0 (+5 more)

Fixes

KernelCare state

Live-patch status from KernelCare for each operating system.

Operating system Status Covered kernels
Amazon Linux 2 5.10 Planned
RHEL 8 Planned
RHEL 9 Will Not Fix
Ubuntu 22.04 Planned