CVE-2022-0617: Kernel

NULL pointer dereference in Kernel

No CVSS scoreEPSS 0.0050 · 42nd percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: redhat) at 16 Feb 2022, 16:38 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
Not given	Kernel	affected Linux kernel 5.17-rc2

Identifiers

CVE-2022-0617

CNA

redhat

Weakness (CWE)

CWE-476

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

No source has published a CVSS score for this record yet.

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0050, the 42nd percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 16 Feb 2022. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=7fc3b7c2981bbd1047916ade327beccb90994eee
git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ea8569194b43f0f01f0a84c689388542c7254a1f
lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220114172329.ygzry5rlz64ua2nr%40quack3.lan/T/
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/03/msg00011.html mailing-listmlist
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/03/msg00012.html mailing-listmlist
www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5095 vendor-advisorydebian
www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5096 vendor-advisorydebian
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/04/13/2 mailing-listmlist

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.