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CVE-2022-0487

• 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: none known
• Published: 2022-02-04 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-416

Description

A use-after-free vulnerability was found in rtsx_usb_ms_drv_remove in drivers/memstick/host/rtsx_usb_ms.c in memstick in the Linux kernel. In this flaw, a local attacker with a user privilege may impact system Confidentiality. This flaw affects kernel versions prior to 5.14 rc1.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 9.0, 11.0
• Linux kernel: through 5.13.19
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 8.0

References

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2044561
• https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=42933c8aa14be1caa9eda41f65cde8a3a95d3e39
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/03/msg00011.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/03/msg00012.html
• https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5095
• https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5096
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2044561
• https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=42933c8aa14be1caa9eda41f65cde8a3a95d3e39
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/03/msg00011.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/03/msg00012.html
• https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5095
• https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5096

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