CVE Catalog

CVE-2022-32981

HighCVSS 7.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Elevated risk
0.96%

59th percentile - higher than 59% of all known CVEs

Summary

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.18.3 on powerpc 32-bit platforms. There is a buffer overflow in ptrace PEEKUSER and POKEUSER (aka PEEKUSR and POKEUSR) when accessing floating point registers.

Risk Assessment

Risk of buffer overflow, potentially leading to system crash or privilege escalation.

Recommendation

Apply Linux kernel updates for powerpc 32-bit platforms that fix this vulnerability.

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Original NVD description (English source)

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.18.3 on powerpc 32-bit platforms. There is a buffer overflow in ptrace PEEKUSER and POKEUSER (aka PEEKUSR and POKEUSR) when accessing floating point registers.

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