Bug 2396103 (CVE-2022-50359) - CVE-2022-50359 kernel: media: cx88: Fix a null-ptr-deref bug in buffer_prepare()
Summary: CVE-2022-50359 kernel: media: cx88: Fix a null-ptr-deref bug in buffer_prepare()
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2022-50359
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Reported: 2025-09-17 15:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-09-17 17:39 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-09-17 15:01:31 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

media: cx88: Fix a null-ptr-deref bug in buffer_prepare()

When the driver calls cx88_risc_buffer() to prepare the buffer, the
function call may fail, resulting in a empty buffer and null-ptr-deref
later in buffer_queue().

The following log can reveal it:

[   41.822762] general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000000: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI
[   41.824488] KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007]
[   41.828027] RIP: 0010:buffer_queue+0xc2/0x500
[   41.836311] Call Trace:
[   41.836945]  __enqueue_in_driver+0x141/0x360
[   41.837262]  vb2_start_streaming+0x62/0x4a0
[   41.838216]  vb2_core_streamon+0x1da/0x2c0
[   41.838516]  __vb2_init_fileio+0x981/0xbc0
[   41.839141]  __vb2_perform_fileio+0xbf9/0x1120
[   41.840072]  vb2_fop_read+0x20e/0x400
[   41.840346]  v4l2_read+0x215/0x290
[   41.840603]  vfs_read+0x162/0x4c0

Fix this by checking the return value of cx88_risc_buffer()

[hverkuil: fix coding style issues]


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