CVE Catalog

CVE-2022-29582

HighCVSS 7.0
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Elevated risk
0.77%

53th percentile - higher than 53% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel before 5.17.3, fs/io_uring.c has a use-after-free due to a race condition in io_uring timeouts. This can be triggered by a local user who has no access to any user namespace; however, the race condition perhaps can only be exploited infrequently.

Risk Assessment

A local user could potentially exploit this vulnerability for privilege escalation or memory corruption, though exploitation is difficult and infrequent.

Recommendation

Update the Linux kernel to version 5.17.3 or later.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel before 5.17.3, fs/io_uring.c has a use-after-free due to a race condition in io_uring timeouts. This can be triggered by a local user who has no access to any user namespace; however, the race condition perhaps can only be exploited infrequently.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS