Vulnerability · Published Dec 14, 2022 · Assigned by redhat

CVE-2022-3105

Medium 5.5

In plain English

A medium-severity null pointer dereference in Kernel. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 13% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)5.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 87.2% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.16-rc6. uapi_finalize in drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_uapi.c lacks check of kmalloc_array().

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:12linux5.15.15-1DEBIAN-CVE-2022-3105
Debian:13linux5.15.15-1DEBIAN-CVE-2022-3105
Debian:14linux5.15.15-1DEBIAN-CVE-2022-3105
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iot-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-3105
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspi-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-3105
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-3105
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscvno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-3105

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
n/a Kernel Linux 5.16-rc6

Weakness: CWE-476 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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