Local kernel crash via unchecked resource lookup
Published Feb 26, 2025 · Updated May 11, 2026
NULL pointer dereference in the Linux ARM SMMU v3 driver allows local users to crash affected systems during device probing. The arm_smmu_device_probe function passes an unchecked NULL result from platform_get_resource to resource_size, dereferencing the absent memory resource. The path requires an ARM SMMU v3 device configuration without the expected MMIO resource, and exploitation affects availability by crashing the kernel.
Summary
What happened
NULL pointer dereference in the Linux ARM SMMU v3 driver allows local users to crash affected systems during device probing. The arm_smmu_device_probe function passes an unchecked NULL result from platform_get_resource to resource_size, dereferencing the absent memory resource. The path requires an ARM SMMU v3 device configuration without the expected MMIO resource, and exploitation affects availability by crashing the kernel.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2022-49319
- Published
- Feb 26, 2025
- Updated
- May 11, 2026
- Vendor
- The Linux Kernel Organization
- Product
- Linux
- Classifications
- CWE-476, T1499.004
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Feb 26, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- May 11, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=4.2
- Affected versionversion=48ec83bcbcf5090fcdf74a6168f161d247492979 <54c1e0e3bbcab2abe25b2874a43050ae5df87831
- Affected versionversion=48ec83bcbcf5090fcdf74a6168f161d247492979 <54cf47da0c7532d151d76e5d63f5936191698c44
- Affected versionversion=48ec83bcbcf5090fcdf74a6168f161d247492979 <b131fa8c1d2afd05d0b7598621114674289c2fbb
- Affected versionversion=48ec83bcbcf5090fcdf74a6168f161d247492979 <db728a891f9177b044aaca89b678f6b5e24d5cc3
- Affected versionversion=48ec83bcbcf5090fcdf74a6168f161d247492979 <fb0f1c5eb8d60b3e018ba7c87da249b52674ebe6
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