CVE-2022-50282

EUVD-2022-55573
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

chardev: fix error handling in cdev_device_add()

While doing fault injection test, I got the following report:

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kobject: '(null)' (0000000039956980): is not initialized, yet kobject_put() is being called.
WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 6306 at kobject_put+0x23d/0x4e0
CPU: 3 PID: 6306 Comm: 283 Tainted: G        W          6.1.0-rc2-00005-g307c1086d7c9 #1253
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.13.0-1ubuntu1.1 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:kobject_put+0x23d/0x4e0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 cdev_device_add+0x15e/0x1b0
 __iio_device_register+0x13b4/0x1af0 [industrialio]
 __devm_iio_device_register+0x22/0x90 [industrialio]
 max517_probe+0x3d8/0x6b4 [max517]
 i2c_device_probe+0xa81/0xc00

When device_add() is injected fault and returns error, if dev->devt is not set,
cdev_add() is not called, cdev_del() is not needed. Fix this by checking dev->devt
in error path.
ProviderTypeBase ScoreAtk. VectorAtk. ComplexityPriv. RequiredVector
NISTPrimary
5.5 MEDIUM
LOCAL
LOW
LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Base Score
CVSS 3.x
EPSS Score
Percentile: 3%
Affected Products (NVD)
VendorProductVersion
linuxlinux_kernel
3.16.83 ≤
𝑥
< 3.17
linuxlinux_kernel
4.4.224 ≤
𝑥
< 4.5
linuxlinux_kernel
4.9.224 ≤
𝑥
< 4.9.337
linuxlinux_kernel
4.12 ≤
𝑥
< 4.14.303
linuxlinux_kernel
4.15 ≤
𝑥
< 4.19.270
linuxlinux_kernel
4.20 ≤
𝑥
< 5.4.229
linuxlinux_kernel
5.5 ≤
𝑥
< 5.10.163
linuxlinux_kernel
5.11 ≤
𝑥
< 5.15.86
linuxlinux_kernel
5.16 ≤
𝑥
< 6.0.16
linuxlinux_kernel
6.1 ≤
𝑥
< 6.1.2
𝑥
= Vulnerable software versions
Debian logo
Debian Releases
Debian Product
Codename
linux
bookworm
6.1.148-1
fixed
bookworm (security)
6.1.147-1
fixed
bullseye
5.10.223-1
fixed
bullseye (security)
5.10.237-1
fixed
forky
6.16.3-1
fixed
sid
6.16.7-1
fixed
trixie
6.12.43-1
fixed
trixie (security)
6.12.41-1
fixed
openSUSE logo
openSUSE / SLES Releases
openSUSE Product
Release
cluster-md-kmp-default
suse enterprise server 12 SP5
4.12.14-122.275.1
fixed
suse enterprise server 15 SP5
5.14.21-150500.55.124.1
fixed
dlm-kmp-default
suse enterprise server 12 SP5
4.12.14-122.275.1
fixed
suse enterprise server 15 SP5
5.14.21-150500.55.124.1
fixed
gfs2-kmp-default
suse enterprise server 12 SP5
4.12.14-122.275.1
fixed
suse enterprise server 15 SP5
5.14.21-150500.55.124.1
fixed
kernel-64kb
suse enterprise server 15 SP4
5.14.21-150400.24.179.1
fixed
suse enterprise server 15 SP5
5.14.21-150500.55.124.1
fixed
kernel-default
suse enterprise server 12 SP5
4.12.14-122.275.1
fixed
suse enterprise server 15 SP4
5.14.21-150400.24.179.1
fixed
suse enterprise server 15 SP5
5.14.21-150500.55.124.1
fixed
kernel-default-base
suse enterprise server 12 SP5
4.12.14-122.275.1
fixed
suse enterprise server 15 SP4
5.14.21-150400.24.179.1.150400.24.92.1
fixed
suse enterprise server 15 SP5
5.14.21-150500.55.124.1.150500.6.59.1
fixed
kernel-default-man
suse enterprise server 12 SP5
4.12.14-122.275.1
fixed
kernel-docs
suse enterprise server 15 SP4
5.14.21-150400.24.179.1
fixed
suse enterprise server 15 SP5
5.14.21-150500.55.124.1
fixed
kernel-macros
suse enterprise server 12 SP5
4.12.14-122.275.1
fixed
suse enterprise server 15 SP4
5.14.21-150400.24.179.1
fixed
suse enterprise server 15 SP5
5.14.21-150500.55.124.1
fixed
kernel-obs-build
suse enterprise server 15 SP4
5.14.21-150400.24.179.1
fixed
suse enterprise server 15 SP5
5.14.21-150500.55.124.1
fixed
kernel-source
suse enterprise server 12 SP5
4.12.14-122.275.1
fixed
suse enterprise server 15 SP4
5.14.21-150400.24.179.1
fixed
suse enterprise server 15 SP5
5.14.21-150500.55.124.1
fixed
kernel-syms
suse enterprise server 12 SP5
4.12.14-122.275.1
fixed
suse enterprise server 15 SP4
5.14.21-150400.24.179.1
fixed
suse enterprise server 15 SP5
5.14.21-150500.55.124.1
fixed
kernel-zfcpdump
suse enterprise server 15 SP4
5.14.21-150400.24.179.1
fixed
suse enterprise server 15 SP5
5.14.21-150500.55.124.1
fixed
ocfs2-kmp-default
suse enterprise server 12 SP5
4.12.14-122.275.1
fixed
suse enterprise server 15 SP5
5.14.21-150500.55.124.1
fixed
reiserfs-kmp-default
suse enterprise server 15 SP4
5.14.21-150400.24.179.1
fixed
suse enterprise server 15 SP5
5.14.21-150500.55.124.1
fixed