Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-49417

Medium

Published: 26 February 2025

Published
26 February 2025
Modified
22 September 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0013 32.5th percentile
Risk Priority 11 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-49417 is a medium-severity NULL Pointer Dereference (CWE-476) vulnerability in Linux Linux Kernel. Its CVSS base score is 5.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 32.5th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iwlwifi: mei: fix potential NULL-ptr deref If SKB allocation fails, continue rather than using the NULL pointer. Coverity CID: 1497650

CWE(s)
CWE-476

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

linux
linux kernel
5.17 — 5.17.14 · 5.18 — 5.18.3

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References