CVE-2022-0854

Description

A memory leak flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s DMA subsystem, in the way a user calls DMA_FROM_DEVICE. This flaw allows a local user to read random memory from the kernel space.

References

https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5173

https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5161

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/07/msg00000.html

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/kernel/dma/swiotlb.c?h=v5.17-rc8&id=aa6f8dcbab473f3a3c7454b74caa46d36cdc5d13

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3