# CVE-2022-49459: thermal/drivers/broadcom: Fix potential NULL dereference in sr\_thermal\_probe

- Severity: CVSS 5.5 (Medium), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-02-26 · Updated: 2026-05-11

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 5.1

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: thermal/drivers/broadcom: Fix potential NULL dereference in sr_thermal_probe platform_get_resource() may return NULL, add proper check to avoid potential NULL dereferencing.

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## Related

- Browse: [Linux kernel](https://cve.now/tech/linux-kernel.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b3461ccaa5d2588568d865faee285512ad448049
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/79098339ac2065f4b4352ef5921628970b6f47e6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ef1235c6514a58f274246cf4a2d5f4e40af539ce
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ee9b6b02e8c140323ed46d6602d805ea735c7719
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/61621e042c22b47d1eadee617bdd26835294b425
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e20d136ec7d6f309989c447638365840d3424c8e

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