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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Feb 26, 2025· Updated Nov 3, 2025

i2c: dev: check return value when calling dev_set_name()

CVE-2022-49046

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

i2c: dev: check return value when calling dev_set_name()

If dev_set_name() fails, the dev_name() is null, check the return value of dev_set_name() to avoid the null-ptr-deref.

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Linux/Kernelllm-fuzzy2 versions
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- (no CPE)
- (no CPE)range: 5.7
osv-coords8 versions
pkg:rpm/suse/kernel-default&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Live%20Patching%2012%20SP5 pkg:rpm/suse/kernel-default&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP5-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/kernel-default&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20LTSS%20Extended%20Security%2012%20SP5 pkg:rpm/suse/kernel-source&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP5-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/kernel-source&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20LTSS%20Extended%20Security%2012%20SP5 pkg:rpm/suse/kernel-syms&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP5-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/kernel-syms&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20LTSS%20Extended%20Security%2012%20SP5 pkg:rpm/suse/kgraft-patch-SLE12-SP5_Update_67&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Live%20Patching%2012%20SP5
< 4.12.14-122.255.1+ 7 more
- (no CPE)range: < 4.12.14-122.255.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.12.14-122.255.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.12.14-122.255.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.12.14-122.255.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.12.14-122.255.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.12.14-122.255.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.12.14-122.255.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1-8.5.1

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