CVE-2022-50173

CVE-2022-50173 affects the Linux kernel DRM/MSM MDP5 path. The vulnerability arises from not grabbing the global state lock after an early return when hwpipe is disabled, allowing contention and potentially returning 0. The public entries describe the fix as “Fix global state lock backoff” and ci...

CVE-2022-50488

CVE-2022-50488 is a Linux kernel issue in the block BFQ (BFQ scheduler) where bfqq objects could end up pointing to the same bic after cgroup moves, enabling a use-after-free scenario for bfqq->bic. The described sequence shows two processes sharing BICs, merging bfqq entries, and after a casc...