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CVE-2022-1280

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2022-04-13 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-416

Description

A use-after-free vulnerability was found in drm_lease_held in drivers/gpu/drm/drm_lease.c in the Linux kernel due to a race problem. This flaw allows a local user privilege attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) or a kernel information leak.

Affected products

• Linux kernel: from 5.17 through 5.17.4
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 8.0

References

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2071022
• https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/04/12/3
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2071022
• https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/04/12/3

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