# CVE-2022-50359: media: cx88: Fix a null-ptr-deref bug in buffer\_prepare()

- 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: 2025-09-17 · Updated: 2026-05-11

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 2.6.12

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: cx88: Fix a null-ptr-deref bug in buffer_prepare() When the driver calls cx88_risc_buffer() to prepare the buffer, the function call may fail, resulting in a empty buffer and null-ptr-deref later in buffer_queue(). The following log can reveal it: [ 41.822762] general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000000: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI [ 41.824488] KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007] [ 41.828027] RIP: 0010:buffer_queue+0xc2/0x500 [ 41.836311] Call Trace: [ 41.836945] __enqueue_in_driver+0x141/0x360 [ 41.837262] vb2_start_streaming+0x62/0x4a0 [ 41.838216] vb2_core_streamon+0x1da/0x2c0 [ 41.838516] __vb2_init_fileio+0x981/0xbc0 [ 41.839141] __vb2_perform_fileio+0xbf9/0x1120 [ 41.840072] vb2_fop_read+0x20e/0x400 [ 41.840346] v4l2_read+0x215/0x290 [ 41.840603] vfs_read+0x162/0x4c0 Fix this by checking the return value of cx88_risc_buffer() [hverkuil: fix coding style issues]

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c76d04d2079a4b7369ce9a0e859c0f3f2250bcc1
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/10c99d1c46ea9cd940029e17bab11d021f315c21
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4befc7ffa18ef9a4b70d854465313a345a06862f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9181af2dbf06e7f432e5dbe88d10b22343e851b9
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c2257c8a501537afab276c306cb717b7260276e1
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6f21976095c1e92454ab030976f95f40d652351b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/704838040f3bdb4aa07ff4f26505a666a3defcfe
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/644d5a87ab1863eb606526ea743021752a17e9cb
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2b064d91440b33fba5b452f2d1b31f13ae911d71

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