CVE-2022-3114 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.16-rc6. imx_register_uart_clocks in drivers/clk/imx/clk.c lacks check of the return value of kcalloc() and will cause the null pointer dereference.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Linux	Linux Kernel

Configuration 1 [-]

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	cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.16.0:rc2::::::
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No data.

References

Link	Providers
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2153054
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?h=v5.19-rc2&id=ed713e2bc093239ccd380c2ce8ae9e4162f5c037
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-3114
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-3114

History

Tue, 22 Apr 2025 14:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2022-12-14T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-04-22T13:55:33.529Z

Reserved: 2022-09-02T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-3114

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T01:00:10.439Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-12-14T21:15:12.783

Modified: 2025-04-22T14:15:21.347

Link: CVE-2022-3114

Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2022-12-13T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2022-3114 - Bugzilla

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