CVE-2022-49046

unknown
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: i2c: dev: check return value when calling dev_set_name() If dev_set_name() fails, the dev_name() is null, check the return value of dev_set_name() to avoid the null-ptr-deref.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-49046

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-49046.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed5.17.6-1
debian debianbullseyefixed5.10.237-1
debian debianforkyfixed5.17.6-1
debian debiansidfixed5.17.6-1
debian debiantrixiefixed5.17.6-1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.