CVE-2022-47946

high
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v4 NEW
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
8.0

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel 5.10.x before 5.10.155. A use-after-free in io_sqpoll_wait_sq in fs/io_uring.c allows an attacker to crash the kernel, resulting in denial of service. finish_wait can be skipped. An attack can occur in some situations by forking a process and then quickly terminating it. NOTE: later kernel versions, such as the 5.15 longterm series, substantially changed the implementation of io_sqpoll_wait_sq.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
Affected
arch Arch Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
Fixed 6.2-1
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 5.14.6-1
sid Fixed 5.14.6-1
forky Fixed 5.14.6-1
bullseye Fixed 5.10.158-1
bookworm Fixed 5.14.6-1

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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