CVE-2022-49046 Information

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.

Reference

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2f345bb14ad4744950499ff222e2899209297afa https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/993eb48fa199b5f476df8204e652eff63dd19361 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c74d77a2d07744147d734138acd6ce9dba715e5d