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Vulnerability · Published Feb 4, 2022 · Assigned by redhat

CVE-2022-0487

Medium 5.5

In plain English

A medium-severity use-after-free in kernel. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.4% (higher than 37% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS NVD)5.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.4%top 63.1% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

A use-after-free vulnerability was found in rtsx_usb_ms_drv_remove in drivers/memstick/host/rtsx_usb_ms.c in memstick in the Linux kernel. In this flaw, a local attacker with a user privilege may impact system Confidentiality. This flaw affects kernel versions prior to 5.14 rc1.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:12linux5.16.10-1DEBIAN-CVE-2022-0487
Debian:13linux5.16.10-1DEBIAN-CVE-2022-0487
Debian:14linux5.16.10-1DEBIAN-CVE-2022-0487
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iot-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-0487
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspi-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-0487
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-0487

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
n/a kernel kernel 5.14 rc1

Weakness: CWE-416

References