# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-49960"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-06-18T11:00:21.621Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:10:00.494Z"
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-2022-49960"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49960.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49960"
title: "drm/i915: fix null pointer dereference"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndrm/i915: fix null pointer dereference\n\nAsus chromebook CX550 crashes during boot on v5.17-rc1 kernel.\nThe root cause is null pointer defeference of bi_next\nin tgl_get_bw_info() in drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_bw.c.\n\nBUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 000000000000002e\nPGD 0 P4D 0\nOops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI\nCPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G     U            5.17.0-rc1\nHardware name: Google Delbin/Delbin, BIOS Google_Delbin.13672.156.3 05/14/2021\nRIP: 0010:tgl_get_bw_info+0x2de/0x510\n...\n[    2.554467] Call Trace:\n[    2.554467]  \u003cTASK\u003e\n[    2.554467]  intel_bw_init_hw+0x14a/0x434\n[    2.554467]  ? _printk+0x59/0x73\n[    2.554467]  ? _dev_err+0x77/0x91\n[    2.554467]  i915_driver_hw_probe+0x329/0x33e\n[    2.554467]  i915_driver_probe+0x4c8/0x638\n[    2.554467]  i915_pci_probe+0xf8/0x14e\n[    2.554467]  ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x12/0x2c\n[    2.554467]  pci_device_probe+0xaa/0x142\n[    2.554467]  really_probe+0x13f/0x2f4\n[    2.554467]  __driver_probe_device+0x9e/0xd3\n[    2.554467]  driver_probe_device+0x24/0x7c\n[    2.554467]  __driver_attach+0xba/0xcf\n[    2.554467]  ? driver_attach+0x1f/0x1f\n[    2.554467]  bus_for_each_dev+0x8c/0xc0\n[    2.554467]  bus_add_driver+0x11b/0x1f7\n[    2.554467]  driver_register+0x60/0xea\n[    2.554467]  ? mipi_dsi_bus_init+0x16/0x16\n[    2.554467]  i915_init+0x2c/0xb9\n[    2.554467]  ? mipi_dsi_bus_init+0x16/0x16\n[    2.554467]  do_one_initcall+0x12e/0x2b3\n[    2.554467]  do_initcall_level+0xd6/0xf3\n[    2.554467]  do_initcalls+0x4e/0x79\n[    2.554467]  kernel_init_freeable+0xed/0x14d\n[    2.554467]  ? rest_init+0xc1/0xc1\n[    2.554467]  kernel_init+0x1a/0x120\n[    2.554467]  ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30\n[    2.554467]  \u003c/TASK\u003e\n...\nKernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception\n\n(cherry picked from commit c247cd03898c4c43c3bce6d4014730403bc13032)"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"c64a9a7c05beb2b71b7496d873654f88e1a08593","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c2798203315f4729bab0b917bf4c17a159abf9f8"},{"version":"c64a9a7c05beb2b71b7496d873654f88e1a08593","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"458ec0c8f35963626ccd51c3d50b752de5f1b9d4"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.17","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.17"},{"version":"5.19.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.19.*"},{"version":"6.0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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