CVEs from 2022
Total
5,249
critical
critical 92
high
high 1,233
medium
medium 961
low
low 24
% Critical
1.8%
% with KEV
2.5%
% with exploit
3.4%
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| CVE | Severity | CVSS | Risk | Flags | OS | Vendor | Published | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2022-50290 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | RHSA-2023:7077: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update (Important) | |||
| CVE-2022-40133 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | A use-after-free(UAF) vulnerability was found in function 'vmw_execbuf_tie_context' in drivers/gpu/vmxgfx/vmxgfx_execbuf.c in Linux kernel's vmwgfx driver with device file '/dev/dri/renderD128 (or Dx… | |||
| CVE-2022-3523 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel. It has been classified as problematic. Affected is an unknown function of the file mm/memory.c of the component Driver Handler. The manipulation leads to us… | |||
| CVE-2022-50701 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mt76: mt7921s: fix slab-out-of-bounds access in sdio host SDIO may need addtional 511 bytes to align bus operation. If the … | |||
| CVE-2022-38457 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | A use-after-free(UAF) vulnerability was found in function 'vmw_cmd_res_check' in drivers/gpu/vmxgfx/vmxgfx_execbuf.c in Linux kernel's vmwgfx driver with device file '/dev/dri/renderD128 (or Dxxx)'. … | |||
| CVE-2022-50700 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: ath10k: Delay the unmapping of the buffer On WCN3990, we are seeing a rare scenario where copy engine hardware is sending a… | |||
| CVE-2022-50005 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nfc: pn533: Fix use-after-free bugs caused by pn532_cmd_timeout When the pn532 uart device is detaching, the pn532_uart_remove() … | |||
| CVE-2022-50619 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amdkfd: Fix memory leak in kfd_mem_dmamap_userptr() If the number of pages from the userptr BO differs from the SG BO then th… | |||
| CVE-2022-50582 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: regulator: core: Prevent integer underflow By using a ratio of delay to poll_enabled_time that is not integer time_remaining unde… | |||
| CVE-2022-50578 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: class: fix possible memory leak in __class_register() If class_add_groups() returns error, the 'cp->subsys' need be unregister, a… | |||
| CVE-2022-50558 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: regmap-irq: Use the new num_config_regs property in regmap_add_irq_chip_fwnode Commit faa87ce9196d ("regmap-irq: Introduce config… | |||
| CVE-2022-50488 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: block, bfq: fix possible uaf for 'bfqq->bic' Our test report a uaf for 'bfqq->bic' in 5.10: ====================================… | |||
| CVE-2022-50470 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xhci: Remove device endpoints from bandwidth list when freeing the device Endpoints are normally deleted from the bandwidth list … | |||
| CVE-2022-49287 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tpm: fix reference counting for struct tpm_chip The following sequence of operations results in a refcount warning: 1. Open devi… | |||
| CVE-2022-50412 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm: bridge: adv7511: unregister cec i2c device after cec adapter cec_unregister_adapter() assumes that the underlying adapter op… | |||
| CVE-2022-50406 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iomap: iomap: fix memory corruption when recording errors during writeback Every now and then I see this crash on arm64: Unable … | |||
| CVE-2022-50393 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amdgpu: SDMA update use unlocked iterator SDMA update page table may be called from unlocked context, this generate below war… | |||
| CVE-2022-50391 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/mempolicy: fix memory leak in set_mempolicy_home_node system call When encountering any vma in the range with policy other tha… | |||
| CVE-2022-50390 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/ttm: fix undefined behavior in bit shift for TTM_TT_FLAG_PRIV_POPULATED Shifting signed 32-bit value by 31 bits is undefined,… | |||
| CVE-2022-50550 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: blk-iolatency: Fix memory leak on add_disk() failures When a gendisk is successfully initialized but add_disk() fails such as whe… | |||
| CVE-2022-50544 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: usb: host: xhci: Fix potential memory leak in xhci_alloc_stream_info() xhci_alloc_stream_info() allocates stream context array fo… | |||
| CVE-2022-50489 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/mipi-dsi: Detach devices when removing the host Whenever the MIPI-DSI host is unregistered, the code of mipi_dsi_host_unregis… | |||
| CVE-2022-50482 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iommu/vt-d: Clean up si_domain in the init_dmars() error path A splat from kmem_cache_destroy() was seen with a kernel prior to c… | |||
| CVE-2022-50479 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amd: fix potential memory leak This patch fix potential memory leak (clk_src) when function run into last return NULL. s/fre… | |||
| CVE-2022-50473 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cpufreq: Init completion before kobject_init_and_add() In cpufreq_policy_alloc(), it will call uninitialed completion in cpufreq_… | |||
| CVE-2022-50477 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: rtc: class: Fix potential memleak in devm_rtc_allocate_device() devm_rtc_allocate_device() will alloc a rtc_device first, and the… | |||
| CVE-2022-40284 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | RHSA-2023:5264: virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel security and bug fix update (Important) | |||
| CVE-2022-32089 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | RHSA-2023:5683: mariadb:10.5 security update (Important) | |||
| CVE-2022-32091 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | RHSA-2023:5683: mariadb:10.5 security update (Important) | |||
| CVE-2022-32084 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | RHSA-2023:5683: mariadb:10.5 security update (Important) | |||
| CVE-2022-32081 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | RHSA-2023:5683: mariadb:10.5 security update (Important) | |||
| CVE-2022-47015 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | RHSA-2023:5683: mariadb:10.5 security update (Important) | |||
| CVE-2022-32082 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | RHSA-2023:5683: mariadb:10.5 security update (Important) | |||
| CVE-2022-38791 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | RHSA-2023:5683: mariadb:10.5 security update (Important) | |||
| CVE-2022-25883 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | RHSA-2023:5362: nodejs:18 security, bug fix, and enhancement update (Important) | |||
| CVE-2022-50661 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: seccomp: Move copy_seccomp() to no failure path. Our syzbot instance reported memory leaks in do_seccomp() [0], similar to the re… | |||
| CVE-2022-41804 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | RHEA-2023:4995: microcode_ctl bug fix and enhancement update (Important) | |||
| CVE-2022-40982 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | Information exposure through microarchitectural state after transient execution in certain vector execution units for some Intel(R) Processors may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable in… | |||
| CVE-2022-45869 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | Important: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update | |||
| CVE-2022-32885 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved validation. This issue is fixed in iOS 15.6 and iPadOS 15.6, macOS Monterey 12.5, Safari 15.6. Processing maliciously crafted web content may lea… | |||
| CVE-2022-40609 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | RHSA-2023:4103: java-1.8.0-ibm security update (Important) | |||
| CVE-2022-37967 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | RHEA-2023:3850: krb5 bug fix update (Important) | |||
| CVE-2022-25265 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | In the Linux kernel through 5.16.10, certain binary files may have the exec-all attribute if they were built in approximately 2003 (e.g., with GCC 3.2.2 and Linux kernel 2.4.20). This can cause execu… | |||
| CVE-2022-25147 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | RHSA-2023:3109: apr-util security update (Important) | |||
| CVE-2022-50130 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: staging: fbtft: core: set smem_len before fb_deferred_io_init call The fbtft_framebuffer_alloc() calls fb_deferred_io_init() befo… | |||
| CVE-2022-41218 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | In drivers/media/dvb-core/dmxdev.c in the Linux kernel through 5.19.10, there is a use-after-free caused by refcount races, affecting dvb_demux_open and dvb_dmxdev_release. | |||
| CVE-2022-49603 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ip: Fix data-races around sysctl_ip_fwd_update_priority. While reading sysctl_ip_fwd_update_priority, it can be changed concurren… | |||
| CVE-2022-49602 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ip: Fix a data-race around sysctl_fwmark_reflect. While reading sysctl_fwmark_reflect, it can be changed concurrently. Thus, we n… | |||
| CVE-2022-49600 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ip: Fix a data-race around sysctl_ip_autobind_reuse. While reading sysctl_ip_autobind_reuse, it can be changed concurrently. Thus… | |||
| CVE-2022-49599 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tcp: Fix data-races around sysctl_tcp_l3mdev_accept. While reading sysctl_tcp_l3mdev_accept, it can be changed concurrently. Thus… | |||
| CVE-2022-49598 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tcp: Fix data-races around sysctl_tcp_mtu_probing. While reading sysctl_tcp_mtu_probing, it can be changed concurrently. Thus, we… | |||
| CVE-2022-49087 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: rxrpc: fix a race in rxrpc_exit_net() Current code can lead to the following race: CPU0 … | |||
| CVE-2022-49513 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cpufreq: governor: Use kobject release() method to free dbs_data The struct dbs_data embeds a struct gov_attr_set and the struct … | |||
| CVE-2022-49511 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fbdev: defio: fix the pagelist corruption Easily hit the below list corruption: == list_add corruption. prev->next should be next… | |||
| CVE-2022-49969 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amd/display: clear optc underflow before turn off odm clock [Why] After ODM clock off, optc underflow bit will be kept there … | |||
| CVE-2022-49434 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: PCI: Avoid pci_dev_lock() AB/BA deadlock with sriov_numvfs_store() The sysfs sriov_numvfs_store() path acquires the device lock b… | |||
| CVE-2022-49429 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/hfi1: Prevent panic when SDMA is disabled If the hfi1 module is loaded with HFI1_CAP_SDMA off, a call to hfi1_write_iter() w… | |||
| CVE-2022-48701 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: usb-audio: Fix an out-of-bounds bug in __snd_usb_parse_audio_interface() There may be a bad USB audio device with a USB ID … | |||
| CVE-2022-49294 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amd/display: Check if modulo is 0 before dividing. [How & Why] If a value of 0 is read, then this will cause a divide-by-0 pa… | |||
| CVE-2022-49372 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tcp: tcp_rtx_synack() can be called from process context Laurent reported the enclosed report [1] This bug triggers with followi… | |||
| CVE-2022-49356 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: SUNRPC: Trap RDMA segment overflows Prevent svc_rdma_build_writes() from walking off the end of a Write chunk's segment array. Ca… | |||
| CVE-2022-50028 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: gadgetfs: ep_io - wait until IRQ finishes after usb_ep_queue() if wait_for_completion_interruptible() is interrupted we need to w… | |||
| CVE-2022-49345 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: xfrm: unexport __init-annotated xfrm4_protocol_init() EXPORT_SYMBOL and __init is a bad combination because the .init.text s… | |||
| CVE-2022-50583 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: md/raid0, raid10: Don't set discard sectors for request queue It should use disk_stack_limits to get a proper max_discard_sectors… | |||
| CVE-2022-50839 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: jbd2: fix potential buffer head reference count leak As in 'jbd2_fc_wait_bufs' if buffer isn't uptodate, will return -EIO without… | |||
| CVE-2022-49275 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: can: m_can: m_can_tx_handler(): fix use after free of skb can_put_echo_skb() will clone skb then free the skb. Move the can_put_e… | |||
| CVE-2022-1789 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | Important: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update | |||
| CVE-2022-48939 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Add schedule points in batch ops syzbot reported various soft lockups caused by bpf batch operations. INFO: task kworker/1… | |||
| CVE-2022-50032 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: usb: renesas: Fix refcount leak bug In usbhs_rza1_hardware_init(), of_find_node_by_name() will return a node pointer with refcoun… | |||
| CVE-2022-49214 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: powerpc/64s: Don't use DSISR for SLB faults Since commit 46ddcb3950a2 ("powerpc/mm: Show if a bad page fault on data is read or w… | |||
| CVE-2022-49207 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf, sockmap: Fix memleak in sk_psock_queue_msg If tcp_bpf_sendmsg is running during a tear down operation we may enqueue data on… | |||
| CVE-2022-42826 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management. This issue is fixed in macOS Ventura 13, iOS 16.1 and iPadOS 16, Safari 16.1. Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead… | |||
| CVE-2022-42867 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management. This issue is fixed in Safari 16.2, tvOS 16.2, macOS Ventura 13.1, iOS 16.2 and iPadOS 16.2, watchOS 9.2. Processing maliciously … | |||
| CVE-2022-50778 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fortify: Fix __compiletime_strlen() under UBSAN_BOUNDS_LOCAL With CONFIG_FORTIFY=y and CONFIG_UBSAN_LOCAL_BOUNDS=y enabled, we ob… | |||
| CVE-2022-50148 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: kernfs: fix potential NULL dereference in __kernfs_remove When lockdep is enabled, lockdep_assert_held_write would cause potentia… | |||
| CVE-2022-42823 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | A type confusion issue was addressed with improved memory handling. This issue is fixed in tvOS 16.1, macOS Ventura 13, watchOS 9.1, Safari 16.1, iOS 16.1 and iPadOS 16. Processing maliciously crafte… | |||
| CVE-2022-42799 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | The issue was addressed with improved UI handling. This issue is fixed in tvOS 16.1, macOS Ventura 13, watchOS 9.1, Safari 16.1, iOS 16.1 and iPadOS 16. Visiting a malicious website may lead to user … | |||
| CVE-2022-1462 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | Important: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update | |||
| CVE-2022-50033 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: usb: host: ohci-ppc-of: Fix refcount leak bug In ohci_hcd_ppc_of_probe(), of_find_compatible_node() will return a node pointer wi… | |||
| CVE-2022-42824 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | A logic issue was addressed with improved state management. This issue is fixed in tvOS 16.1, macOS Ventura 13, watchOS 9.1, Safari 16.1, iOS 16.1 and iPadOS 16. Processing maliciously crafted web co… | |||
| CVE-2022-2196 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | Important: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update | |||
| CVE-2022-32923 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | A correctness issue in the JIT was addressed with improved checks. This issue is fixed in tvOS 16.1, iOS 15.7.1 and iPadOS 15.7.1, macOS Ventura 13, watchOS 9.1, Safari 16.1, iOS 16.1 and iPadOS 16. … | |||
| CVE-2022-21505 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | Important: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update | |||
| CVE-2022-49116 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: use memset avoid memory leaks Use memset to initialize structs to prevent memory leaks in l2cap_ecred_connect | |||
| CVE-2022-49114 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: libfc: Fix use after free in fc_exch_abts_resp() fc_exch_release(ep) will decrease the ep's reference count. When the refer… | |||
| CVE-2022-49072 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: gpio: Restrict usage of GPIO chip irq members before initialization GPIO chip irq members are exposed before they could be comple… | |||
| CVE-2022-50034 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: usb: cdns3 fix use-after-free at workaround 2 BUG: KFENCE: use-after-free read in __list_del_entry_valid+0x10/0xac cdns3_wa2_rem… | |||
| CVE-2022-49070 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fbdev: Fix unregistering of framebuffers without device OF framebuffers do not have an underlying device in the Linux device hier… | |||
| CVE-2022-50037 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/i915/ttm: don't leak the ccs state The kernel only manages the ccs state with lmem-only objects, however the kernel should st… | |||
| CVE-2022-50039 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: stmmac: intel: Add a missing clk_disable_unprepare() call in intel_eth_pci_remove() Commit 09f012e64e4b ("stmmac: intel: Fix cloc… | |||
| CVE-2022-50044 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: qrtr: start MHI channel after endpoit creation MHI channel may generates event/interrupt right after enabling. It may leads … | |||
| CVE-2022-50049 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ASoC: DPCM: Don't pick up BE without substream When DPCM tries to add valid BE connections at dpcm_add_paths(), it doesn't check … | |||
| CVE-2022-50050 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ASoC: SOF: Intel: hda: Fix potential buffer overflow by snprintf() snprintf() returns the would-be-filled size when the string ov… | |||
| CVE-2022-50052 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ASoC: Intel: avs: Fix potential buffer overflow by snprintf() snprintf() returns the would-be-filled size when the string overflo… | |||
| CVE-2022-49010 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: hwmon: (coretemp) Check for null before removing sysfs attrs If coretemp_add_core() gets an error then pdata->core_data[indx] is … | |||
| CVE-2022-48974 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: conntrack: fix using __this_cpu_add in preemptible Currently in nf_conntrack_hash_check_insert(), when it fails in nf_… | |||
| CVE-2022-48885 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ice: Fix potential memory leak in ice_gnss_tty_write() The ice_gnss_tty_write() return directly if the write_buf alloc failed, le… | |||
| CVE-2022-48884 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5: Fix command stats access after free Command may fail while driver is reloading and can't accept FW commands till comman… | |||
| CVE-2022-48883 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5e: IPoIB, Block PKEY interfaces with less rx queues than parent A user is able to configure an arbitrary number of rx que… | |||
| CVE-2022-50051 | high | — | 8.0 | 3y ago | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ASoC: SOF: debug: Fix potential buffer overflow by snprintf() snprintf() returns the would-be-filled size when the string overflo… |