CVE-2022-2380

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: 2022-07-13 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-125

Description

The Linux kernel was found vulnerable out of bounds memory access in the drivers/video/fbdev/sm712fb.c:smtcfb_read() function. The vulnerability could result in local attackers being able to crash the kernel.

Affected products

Linux kernel: before 5.18 — fixed in 5.18

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 5.18. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/linux-fbdev.git/commit/?h=for-next&id=bd771cf5c4254511cc4abb88f3dab3bd58bdf8e8
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/linux-fbdev.git/commit/?h=for-next&id=bd771cf5c4254511cc4abb88f3dab3bd58bdf8e8

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