CVE-2022-41849

Public on 2022-09-30
Modified on 2023-01-18
Description
drivers/video/fbdev/smscufx.c in the Linux kernel through 5.19.12 has a race condition and resultant use-after-free if a physically proximate attacker removes a USB device while calling open(), aka a race condition between ufx_ops_open and ufx_usb_disconnect.
Severity
Medium severity
Medium
CVSS v3 Base Score
4.2
See breakdown

Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
Amazon Linux 1 kernel 2022-12-01 ALAS-2022-1645 Fixed
Amazon Linux 2 - Core kernel 2022-10-31 ALAS2-2022-1876 Fixed
Amazon Linux 2 - Kernel-5.4 Extra kernel 2022-12-01 ALAS2KERNEL-5.4-2022-039 Fixed

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 4.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD CVSSv3 4.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H