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CVE-2022-1975

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2022-08-31 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-248

Description

There is a sleep-in-atomic bug in /net/nfc/netlink.c that allows an attacker to crash the Linux kernel by simulating a nfc device from user-space.

Affected products

• Linux kernel: 5.18-rc6

References

• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/4071bf121d59944d5cd2238de0642f3d7995a997
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/4071bf121d59944d5cd2238de0642f3d7995a997

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