# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-49472"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-02-26T02:13:15.337Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:00:32.989Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:49.724Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49472"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49472.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49472"
title: "net: phy: micrel: Allow probing without .driver_data"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: phy: micrel: Allow probing without .driver_data\n\nCurrently, if the .probe element is present in the phy_driver structure\nand the .driver_data is not, a NULL pointer dereference happens.\n\nAllow passing .probe without .driver_data by inserting NULL checks\nfor priv-\u003etype."
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