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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-50369"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-09-17T14:56:24.889Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:18:13.484Z"
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-2022-50369"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-50369.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50369"
title: "drm/vkms: Fix null-ptr-deref in vkms_release()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndrm/vkms: Fix null-ptr-deref in vkms_release()\n\nA null-ptr-deref is triggered when it tries to destroy the workqueue in\nvkms-\u003eoutput.composer_workq in vkms_release().\n\n KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000118-0x000000000000011f]\n CPU: 5 PID: 17193 Comm: modprobe Not tainted 6.0.0-11331-gd465bff130bf #24\n RIP: 0010:destroy_workqueue+0x2f/0x710\n ...\n Call Trace:\n  \u003cTASK\u003e\n  ? vkms_config_debugfs_init+0x50/0x50 [vkms]\n  __devm_drm_dev_alloc+0x15a/0x1c0 [drm]\n  vkms_init+0x245/0x1000 [vkms]\n  do_one_initcall+0xd0/0x4f0\n  do_init_module+0x1a4/0x680\n  load_module+0x6249/0x7110\n  __do_sys_finit_module+0x140/0x200\n  do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80\n  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0\n\nThe reason is that an OOM happened which triggers the destroy of the\nworkqueue, however, the workqueue is alloced in the later process,\nthus a null-ptr-deref happened. A simple call graph is shown as below:\n\n vkms_init()\n  vkms_create()\n    devm_drm_dev_alloc()\n      __devm_drm_dev_alloc()\n        devm_drm_dev_init()\n          devm_add_action_or_reset()\n            devm_add_action() # an error happened\n            devm_drm_dev_init_release()\n              drm_dev_put()\n                kref_put()\n                  drm_dev_release()\n                    vkms_release()\n                      destroy_workqueue() # null-ptr-deref happened\n    vkms_modeset_init()\n      vkms_output_init()\n        vkms_crtc_init() # where the workqueue get allocated\n\nFix this by checking if composer_workq is NULL before passing it to\nthe destroy_workqueue() in vkms_release()."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"6c234fe37c57627a5baf96f552afa1fae2b67d4d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0b8f390e2251191f1b179cc87f65d54c96565f0d"},{"version":"6c234fe37c57627a5baf96f552afa1fae2b67d4d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1f9836f95271e7acf016667eee0aeae3386f9645"},{"version":"6c234fe37c57627a5baf96f552afa1fae2b67d4d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"596f1ba3987e601e31a5abf1f75ce1d2635aceac"},{"version":"6c234fe37c57627a5baf96f552afa1fae2b67d4d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"57031c474c3a920ea73afeb5dc352e537f5793ee"},{"version":"6c234fe37c57627a5baf96f552afa1fae2b67d4d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2fe2a8f40c21161ffe7653cc234e7934db5b7cc5"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.20","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.20"},{"version":"5.10.173","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.99","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.16","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.2.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.2.*"},{"version":"6.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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