# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-50556"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-10-22T13:23:17.527Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:21:42.566Z"
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-2022-50556"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-50556.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50556"
title: "drm: Fix potential null-ptr-deref due to drmm_mode_config_init()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndrm: Fix potential null-ptr-deref due to drmm_mode_config_init()\n\ndrmm_mode_config_init() will call drm_mode_create_standard_properties()\nand won't check the ret value. When drm_mode_create_standard_properties()\nfailed due to alloc, property will be a NULL pointer and may causes the\nnull-ptr-deref. Fix the null-ptr-deref by adding the ret value check.\n\nFound null-ptr-deref while testing insert module bochs:\ngeneral protection fault, probably for non-canonical address\n    0xdffffc000000000c: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI\nKASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000060-0x0000000000000067]\nCPU: 3 PID: 249 Comm: modprobe Not tainted 6.1.0-rc1+ #364\nHardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS\nrel-1.15.0-0-g2dd4b9b3f840-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014\nRIP: 0010:drm_object_attach_property+0x73/0x3c0 [drm]\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n __drm_connector_init+0xb6c/0x1100 [drm]\n bochs_pci_probe.cold.11+0x4cb/0x7fe [bochs]\n pci_device_probe+0x17d/0x340\n really_probe+0x1db/0x5d0\n __driver_probe_device+0x1e7/0x250\n driver_probe_device+0x4a/0x120\n __driver_attach+0xcd/0x2c0\n bus_for_each_dev+0x11a/0x1b0\n bus_add_driver+0x3d7/0x500\n driver_register+0x18e/0x320\n do_one_initcall+0xc4/0x3e0\n do_init_module+0x1b4/0x630\n load_module+0x5dca/0x7230\n __do_sys_finit_module+0x100/0x170\n do_syscall_64+0x3f/0x90\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd\nRIP: 0033:0x7ff65af9f839"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"6b4959f43a04e12d39c5700607727f2cbcfeac31","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5ae70041a6d7de62a0cdb2bbcfe0c9cf753035d0"},{"version":"6b4959f43a04e12d39c5700607727f2cbcfeac31","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d06e827a65a6bcd2e329045d891d0739cec1cf4a"},{"version":"6b4959f43a04e12d39c5700607727f2cbcfeac31","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b14147464251f66e38fa39f0aae9780466db8610"},{"version":"6b4959f43a04e12d39c5700607727f2cbcfeac31","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"961620ad67611a7320a49f4b6f3c5e2906833a03"},{"version":"6b4959f43a04e12d39c5700607727f2cbcfeac31","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"834c23e4f798dcdc8af251b3c428ceef94741991"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.0","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.0"},{"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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