Bug 2402256 (CVE-2022-50509)

Summary: CVE-2022-50509 kernel: media: coda: Add check for kmalloc
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-10-07 16:05:50 UTC 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

media: coda: Add check for kmalloc

As the kmalloc may return NULL pointer,
it should be better to check the return value
in order to avoid NULL poineter dereference,
same as the others.
Comment 1 Jon Moroney 2025-10-07 16:37:45 UTC 
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025100755-CVE-2022-50509-e40c@gregkh/T