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Vulnerability · Published Feb 11, 2022 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2022-24959

Medium 5.5

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in the linux package (Debian). 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 62.8% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.16.5. There is a memory leak in yam_siocdevprivate in drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:12linux5.16.7-1DEBIAN-CVE-2022-24959
Debian:13linux5.16.7-1DEBIAN-CVE-2022-24959
Debian:14linux5.16.7-1DEBIAN-CVE-2022-24959
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iot-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-24959
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspi-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-24959
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-24959

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
n/a n/a n/a

References