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THREAT OPS › Threat News › [NVD] CVE-2022-50073 (MEDIUM 5.5) — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: tap: NULL pointer derefence in dev_parse_header_protocol when skb->dev is null Fixes a NULL pointer derefence bug triggered from tap driver. When tap_get_user calls virtio_net_hdr_to_skb the skb->dev is nu

[NVD] CVE-2022-50073 (MEDIUM 5.5) — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: tap: NULL pointer derefence in dev_parse_header_protocol when skb->dev is null Fixes a NULL pointer derefence bug triggered from tap driver. When tap_get_user calls virtio_net_hdr_to_skb the skb->dev is nu

lownvdPublished 2025-06-18

CVE-2022-50073 CVSS: 5.5 MEDIUM Published: 2025-06-18T11:15:36.173

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

net: tap: NULL pointer derefence in dev_parse_header_protocol when skb->dev is null

Fixes a NULL pointer derefence bug triggered from tap driver. When tap_get_user calls virtio_net_hdr_to_skb the skb->dev is null (in tap.c skb->dev is set after the call to virti

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CVE-2022-50073cve

Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-50073