Security Advisory

CVE-2022-49962

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2025-06-18 11:00:23
Last updated 2026-05-11 19:10:03
Assigner Linux
State PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xhci: Fix null pointer dereference in remove if xHC has only one roothub The remove path in xhci platform driver tries to remove and put both main and shared hcds even if only a main hcd exists (one roothub) This causes a null pointer dereference in reboot for those controllers. Check that the shared_hcd exists before trying to remove it.