Kernel panic via unchecked JPEG slot index
Published Feb 26, 2025 · Updated Aug 5, 2026
Out-of-bounds access in the imx-jpeg driver in affected Linux kernel releases allows local users to trigger a kernel panic. When JPEG parsing fails before a hardware slot is acquired, the driver retains MXC_MAX_SLOTS and indexes past slot_data, overwriting the adjacent num_domains field. Access to the i.MX JPEG video device and a module unload-and-reload sequence are required; the corrupted domain count prevents power-domain detachment and panics the host during the next module load.
Summary
What happened
Out-of-bounds access in the imx-jpeg driver in affected Linux kernel releases allows local users to trigger a kernel panic. When JPEG parsing fails before a hardware slot is acquired, the driver retains MXC_MAX_SLOTS and indexes past slot_data, overwriting the adjacent num_domains field. Access to the i.MX JPEG video device and a module unload-and-reload sequence are required; the corrupted domain count prevents power-domain detachment and panics the host during the next module load.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2022-49163
- Published
- Feb 26, 2025
- Updated
- Aug 5, 2026
- Vendor
- The Linux Kernel Organization
- Product
- Linux
- Classifications
- CWE-125, T1499.004
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
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- Feb 26, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 5, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=2db16c6ed72ce644d5639b3ed15e5817442db4ba <02f9f97d54ffc85b50ad77f5b1f3c8f69cd17747
- Affected versionversion=2db16c6ed72ce644d5639b3ed15e5817442db4ba <20c8b90430c5d6c4a3936eaa7c35aac670581487
- Affected versionversion=2db16c6ed72ce644d5639b3ed15e5817442db4ba <97558d170a1236280407e8d29a7d095d2c2ed554
- Affected versionversion=2db16c6ed72ce644d5639b3ed15e5817442db4ba <e209e6db2e527db6a93b14c2deedf969caca78fc
- Affected versionversion=5.13
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