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CVE-2022-49974

HID: nintendo: fix rumble worker null pointer deref PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: HID: nintendo: fix rumble worker null pointer deref We can dereference a null pointer trying to queue work to a destroyed workqueue. If the device is disconnected, nintendo_hid_remove is called, in which the rumble_queue is destroyed. Avoid using that queue to defer rumble work once the controller state is set to JOYCON_CTLR_STATE_REMOVED. This eliminates the null pointer dereference.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected c4eae84feff3e68c2f385aa10faea4a96791e7ad before 7c6e6c334154be16740b44dcd7638fb510b9bd91; affected c4eae84feff3e68c2f385aa10faea4a96791e7ad before 1ff89e06c2e5fab30274e4b02360d4241d6e605e
Linux / Linuxaffected 5.16; unaffected 0 before 5.16; unaffected 5.19.7 through 5.19.*; unaffected 6.0 through *

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

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