What is CVE-2022-50757?

CVE-2022-50757 is a high-severity vulnerability in Linux. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2025-12-24.

How severe is CVE-2022-50757?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Linux

CVE-2022-50757

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: camss: Clean up received buffers on failed start of streaming It is required to return the received buffers, if streaming can not be started. For instance media_pipeline_start() may fail with EPIPE, if a link validation between entities is not passed, and in such a case a user gets a kernel warning: WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 520 at drivers/media/common/videobuf2/videobuf2-core.c:1592 vb2_start_streaming+0xec/0x160 <snip> Call trace: vb2_start_streaming+0xec/0x160 vb2_core_streamon+0x9c/0x1a0 vb2_ioctl_streamon+0x68/0xbc v4l_streamon+0x30/0x3c __video_do_ioctl+0x184/0x3e0 video_usercopy+0x37c/0x7b0 video_ioctl2+0x24/0x40 v4l2_ioctl+0x4c/0x70 The fix is to correct the error path in video_start_streaming() of camss.

EPSS: 0.002 (13.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Linux — versions 0ac2586c410fe00d58dd09bf270a22f25d5287b8, 4.14, 0

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-50757?: CVE-2022-50757 is a high-severity vulnerability in Linux. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2025-12-24.
How severe is CVE-2022-50757?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.