CVE-2022-50642: platform/chrome: cros_ec_typec: zero out stale pointers

Deferred
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2022-50642DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50642
Published 09-12-2025Last modified 11-05-2026

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2022-50642 is a vulnerability in linux with no CVSS score yet. EPSS estimates a 0.20% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 9.8% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Insufficient evidence

No CVSS vector published; no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
Not scored
010
No CVSS score recorded
EPSS score
0.20%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 1
RHSA-2024:2394

Timeline

  1. 09-12-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 11-05-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: platform/chrome: cros_ec_typec: zero out stale pointers `cros_typec_get_switch_handles` allocates four pointers when obtaining type-c switch handles. These pointers are all freed if failing to obtain any of them; therefore, pointers in `port` become stale. The stale pointers eventually cause use-after-free or double free in later code paths. Zeroing out all pointer fields after freeing to eliminate these stale pointers.

CVSS metrics

Risk metrics not yet published.

EPSS trend

Probability

0.20%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

10%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 0.20% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

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CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

No weakness data has been published for this record.

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: not stated in public data.

Ubuntu104 products
  • linux< 5.15.0-69.76
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws< 5.15.0-1033.37
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Debian1 product
  • linux< 6.1.4-1
Linux1 product
  • linux≥ f28adb41dab4a2795fd959750df57adffd2bb0be, < 0ceadb5a3e45f1b81cf54bd496b40a5e50b6bd40 | ≥ f28adb41dab4a2795fd959750df57adffd2bb0be, < b610758bb3e0674644c1255cdafc2f46b7e05ff9 | ≥ f28adb41dab4a2795fd959750df57adffd2bb0be, < 6613f36a2fa5c69e528bccba8b3d831f759dad2f | ≥ f28adb41dab4a2795fd959750df57adffd2bb0be, < 9a8aadcf0b459c1257b9477fd6402e1d5952ae07 | 5.9

3 vendors · 106 products

References

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