The vulnerability of the cpufreqpolicyalloc() function in the drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c module of the Linux kernel frequency scaling driver allows a attacker to cause a system failure.

The vulnerability of the cpufreqpolicyalloc function in the drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c module of the Linux kernel frequency scaling driver is related to the execution of operations beyond the buffer boundaries in memory. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to cause a system failure...

CVE-2022-50473

CVE-2022-50473 affects the Linux kernel cpufreq subsystem. The root cause is calling an uninitialized completion in cpufreq_sysfs_release() when kobject_init_and_add() fails, occurring in cpufreq_policy_alloc(). This can lead to a crash (page fault) on a local system via complete+0x98, with Call ...