CyberRota Analysis
This vulnerability has an unknown severity rating. It affects Linux, Chrome.
CVE
CVE-2022-50642
Severity
UNKNOWN
CVSS
N/A
EPSS
0.18%
Linux Chrome
Original NVD Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: platform/chrome: cros_ec_typec: zero out stale pointers `cros_typec_get_switch_handles` allocates four pointers when obtaining type-c switch handles. These pointers are all freed if failing to obtain any of them; therefore, pointers in `port` become stale. The stale pointers eventually cause use-after-free or double free in later code paths. Zeroing out all pointer fields after freeing to eliminate these stale pointers.