CVE-2022-45885

State: Published
Severity: 7.0 High
Published: Nov 25, 2022
Updated: Apr 29, 2025
Reserved: Nov 25, 2022

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 6.0.9. drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c has a race condition that can cause a use-after-free when a device is disconnected.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.0 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')
CWE-416 Use After Free

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-media/20221115131822.6640-1-imv4bel%40gmail.com/
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-media/20221115131822.6640-2-imv4bel%40gmail.com/
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230113-0006/
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=6769a0b7ee0c3b31e1b22c3fadff2bfb642de23f

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