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Vulnerability · Published Sep 18, 2022 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2022-40768

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 0.3% (higher than 23% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS NVD)5.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.3%top 77.2% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

drivers/scsi/stex.c in the Linux kernel through 5.19.9 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory because stex_queuecommand_lck lacks a memset for the PASSTHRU_CMD case.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:12linux6.0.2-1DEBIAN-CVE-2022-40768
Debian:13linux6.0.2-1DEBIAN-CVE-2022-40768
Debian:14linux6.0.2-1DEBIAN-CVE-2022-40768
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux5.15.0-53.59USN-5729-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux5.15.0-53.59UBUNTU-CVE-2022-40768
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws5.15.0-1023.27USN-5729-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws5.15.0-1023.27UBUNTU-CVE-2022-40768
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure5.15.0-1023.29UBUNTU-CVE-2022-40768
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure5.15.0-1023.29USN-5729-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde5.15.0-1024.30.1UBUNTU-CVE-2022-40768
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp5.15.0-1022.29UBUNTU-CVE-2022-40768
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp5.15.0-1022.29USN-5729-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gke5.15.0-1020.25USN-5729-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gke5.15.0-1020.25UBUNTU-CVE-2022-40768
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gkeop5.15.0-1008.12UBUNTU-CVE-2022-40768
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gkeop5.15.0-1008.12USN-5729-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-ibm5.15.0-1018.21USN-5729-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-ibm5.15.0-1018.21UBUNTU-CVE-2022-40768
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iot-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-40768
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iotg5.15.0-1018.23UBUNTU-CVE-2022-40768
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iotg5.15.0-1018.23USN-5729-2
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-kvm5.15.0-1021.26USN-5729-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-kvm5.15.0-1021.26UBUNTU-CVE-2022-40768
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency5.15.0-53.59UBUNTU-CVE-2022-40768
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency5.15.0-53.59USN-5729-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia5.15.0-1015.15UBUNTU-CVE-2022-40768
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-5.175.17.0-1020.21USN-5693-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-5.175.17.0-1020.21UBUNTU-CVE-2022-40768
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.06.0.0-1007.7UBUNTU-CVE-2022-40768
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle5.15.0-1022.28UBUNTU-CVE-2022-40768
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle5.15.0-1022.28USN-5729-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-raspi5.15.0-1018.20USN-5729-2
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-raspi5.15.0-1018.20UBUNTU-CVE-2022-40768
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspi-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-40768
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-40768
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscvno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-40768

Affected products (as reported)

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References