CVE-2022-49496

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel (affected versions not specified)

Description An issue exists in the MediaTek vcodec driver where the kernel can crash during the removal of the mtk-vcodec-dec.ko module. When the driver is operating in subdev mode, the dev->pm.dev parameter becomes NULL within the mtk vcodec dec remove() function, leading to a system crash when the module is removed via rmmod.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.