CVE-2022-50878

About vulnerability

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

gpu: lontium-lt9611: Fix NULL pointer dereference in lt9611_connector_init()

A NULL check for bridge->encoder shows that it may be NULL, but it already been dereferenced on all paths leading to the check. 812 if (!bridge->encoder) {

Dereference the pointer bridge->encoder. 810 drm_connector_attach_encoder(&lt9611->connector, bridge->encoder);

Affected product:

AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , CentOS 8.4 ELS , CentOS 8.5 ELS , CentOS Stream 8 ELS , TuxCare 9.6 ESU

Affected packages:

kernel @ 4.18.0 (+4 more)

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

gpu: lontium-lt9611: Fix NULL pointer dereference in lt9611_connector_init()

A NULL check for bridge->encoder shows that it may be NULL, but it already been dereferenced on all paths leading to the check. 812 if (!bridge->encoder) {

Dereference the pointer bridge->encoder. 810 drm_connector_attach_encoder(&lt9611->connector, bridge->encoder);