CVE-2022-49177

hwrng: cavium - fix NULL but dereferenced coccicheck error

State: Published
Severity: 5.5 Medium
Published: Feb 26, 2025
Updated: May 23, 2026
Reserved: Feb 26, 2025

Description

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

hwrng: cavium - fix NULL but dereferenced coccicheck error

Fix following coccicheck warning: ./drivers/char/hw_random/cavium-rng-vf.c:182:17-20: ERROR: pdev is NULL but dereferenced.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	5.5 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference

Affected Products

Product	Versions
LinuxLinux	680efb33546be8960ccbb2f4e0e43034d9c93b30 to before e47b12f9415169eceda6770fcf45802e0c8d2a66Affected 680efb33546be8960ccbb2f4e0e43034d9c93b30 to before e6205ad58a7ac194abfb33897585b38687d797faAffected bc20294cc8da53c0dc0f5a076b4883be6ec96930Affected 7919dfd84b352782df92c1ff2f0ca4dd5328d198Affected cc744db61229b6c55164b8cbdfaad4caacce62f9Affected 5.10.110 to before 5.11Affected 5.15.33 to before 5.16Affected 5.16.19 to before 5.17Affected
LinuxLinux	5.17Affected before 5.17Not affected 5.17.2 through 5.17.*Not affected 5.18 and laterNot affected

Product

Versions

LinuxLinux

680efb33546be8960ccbb2f4e0e43034d9c93b30 to before e47b12f9415169eceda6770fcf45802e0c8d2a66Affected
680efb33546be8960ccbb2f4e0e43034d9c93b30 to before e6205ad58a7ac194abfb33897585b38687d797faAffected
bc20294cc8da53c0dc0f5a076b4883be6ec96930Affected
7919dfd84b352782df92c1ff2f0ca4dd5328d198Affected
cc744db61229b6c55164b8cbdfaad4caacce62f9Affected
5.10.110 to before 5.11Affected
5.15.33 to before 5.16Affected
5.16.19 to before 5.17Affected

LinuxLinux

5.17Affected
before 5.17Not affected
5.17.2 through 5.17.*Not affected
5.18 and laterNot affected

References

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