# 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-2022-50481"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-10-04T15:16:40.374Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:20:19.702Z"
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-2022-50481"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-50481.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50481"
title: "cxl: fix possible null-ptr-deref in cxl_guest_init_afu|adapter()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncxl: fix possible null-ptr-deref in cxl_guest_init_afu|adapter()\n\nIf device_register() fails in cxl_register_afu|adapter(), the device\nis not added, device_unregister() can not be called in the error path,\notherwise it will cause a null-ptr-deref because of removing not added\ndevice.\n\nAs comment of device_register() says, it should use put_device() to give\nup the reference in the error path. So split device_unregister() into\ndevice_del() and put_device(), then goes to put dev when register fails."
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