CVE-2022-0382

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2022-02-11 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-909

Description

An information leak flaw was found due to uninitialized memory in the Linux kernel's TIPC protocol subsystem, in the way a user sends a TIPC datagram to one or more destinations. This flaw allows a local user to read some kernel memory. This issue is limited to no more than 7 bytes, and the user cannot control what is read. This flaw affects the Linux kernel versions prior to 5.17-rc1.

Affected products

Linux kernel: through 5.16.10

References

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d6d86830705f173fca6087a3e67ceaf68db80523
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d6d86830705f173fca6087a3e67ceaf68db80523

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