CVE-2022-44033

medium

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 6.0.6. drivers/char/pcmcia/cm4040_cs.c has a race condition and resultant use-after-free if a physically proximate attacker removes a PCMCIA device while calling open(), aka a race condition between cm4040_open() and reader_detach().

References

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220919040457.GA302681%40ubuntu/

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220915020834.GA110086%40ubuntu/

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=9b12f050c76f090cc6d0aebe0ef76fed79ec3f15

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2022-10-30

Updated: 2024-03-25

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Medium