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Vulnerability · Published Sep 9, 2022 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2022-40307

Medium 4.7

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 0.2% (higher than 12% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS NVD)4.7Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 88.3% 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 through 5.19.8. drivers/firmware/efi/capsule-loader.c has a race condition with a resultant use-after-free.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:12linux5.19.11-1DEBIAN-CVE-2022-40307
Debian:13linux5.19.11-1DEBIAN-CVE-2022-40307
Debian:14linux5.19.11-1DEBIAN-CVE-2022-40307
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux5.15.0-57.63UBUNTU-CVE-2022-40307
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux5.15.0-57.63USN-5792-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws5.15.0-1027.31USN-5792-2
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws5.15.0-1027.31UBUNTU-CVE-2022-40307
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure5.15.0-1030.37UBUNTU-CVE-2022-40307
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure5.15.0-1030.37USN-5792-2
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde5.15.0-1030.37.1UBUNTU-CVE-2022-40307
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde5.15.0-1030.37.1USN-5792-2
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp5.15.0-1026.33USN-5792-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp5.15.0-1026.33UBUNTU-CVE-2022-40307
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gke5.15.0-1024.29USN-5792-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gke5.15.0-1024.29UBUNTU-CVE-2022-40307
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gkeop5.15.0-1012.16UBUNTU-CVE-2022-40307
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gkeop5.15.0-1012.16USN-5792-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-ibm5.15.0-1022.25USN-5792-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-ibm5.15.0-1022.25UBUNTU-CVE-2022-40307
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iot-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-40307
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iotg5.15.0-1023.28UBUNTU-CVE-2022-40307
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-kvm5.15.0-1025.30USN-5792-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-kvm5.15.0-1025.30UBUNTU-CVE-2022-40307
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency5.15.0-57.63USN-5792-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency5.15.0-57.63UBUNTU-CVE-2022-40307
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia5.15.0-1015.15UBUNTU-CVE-2022-40307
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-5.175.17.0-1031.32USN-6071-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-5.175.17.0-1031.32UBUNTU-CVE-2022-40307
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle5.15.0-1026.32UBUNTU-CVE-2022-40307
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle5.15.0-1026.32USN-5792-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-raspi5.15.0-1022.24UBUNTU-CVE-2022-40307
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-raspi5.15.0-1022.24USN-5792-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspi-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-40307
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-40307
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscvno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-40307

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
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References