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    "id": "CVE-2022-50282",
    "sourceURL": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50282",
    "idYear": 2022,
    "status": "PUBLISHED",
    "publishedAt": "2025-09-15T14:21:18.658Z",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-23T15:24:07.483Z",
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      "at": "2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z",
      "source": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"
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      "title": "chardev: fix error handling in cdev_device_add()",
      "summary": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nchardev: fix error handling in cdev_device_add()\n\nWhile doing fault injection test, I got the following report:\n\n------------[ cut here ]------------\nkobject: '(null)' (0000000039956980): is not initialized, yet kobject_put() is being called.\nWARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 6306 at kobject_put+0x23d/0x4e0\nCPU: 3 PID: 6306 Comm: 283 Tainted: G        W          6.1.0-rc2-00005-g307c1086d7c9 #1253\nHardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.13.0-1ubuntu1.1 04/01/2014\nRIP: 0010:kobject_put+0x23d/0x4e0\nCall Trace:\n <TASK>\n cdev_device_add+0x15e/0x1b0\n __iio_device_register+0x13b4/0x1af0 [industrialio]\n __devm_iio_device_register+0x22/0x90 [industrialio]\n max517_probe+0x3d8/0x6b4 [max517]\n i2c_device_probe+0xa81/0xc00\n\nWhen device_add() is injected fault and returns error, if dev->devt is not set,\ncdev_add() is not called, cdev_del() is not needed. Fix this by checking dev->devt\nin error path.",
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