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CVE-2022-24958

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 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: 2022-02-11 · updated 2026-09-11
• Weakness: CWE-763

Description

drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/inode.c in the Linux kernel through 5.16.8 mishandles dev->buf release.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 9.0
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 34, 35
• Linux kernel: before 4.9.305; from 4.10 before 4.14.270; from 4.15 before 4.19.233; from 4.20 before 5.4.183; from 5.5 before 5.10.104; from 5.11 before 5.15.27 — fixed in 4.14.270, 4.19.233, 4.9.305, 5.10.104, 5.15.27, 5.16.13
• NetApp H300E Firmware: all versions
• NetApp H300S Firmware: all versions
• NetApp H410C Firmware: all versions
• NetApp H410S Firmware: all versions
• NetApp H500E Firmware: all versions
• NetApp H500S Firmware: all versions
• NetApp H700E Firmware: all versions
• NetApp H700S Firmware: all versions

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 4.14.270, 4.19.233, 4.9.305, 5.10.104. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit?id=89f3594d0de58e8a57d92d497dea9fee3d4b9cda
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/501e38a5531efbd77d5c73c0ba838a889bfc1d74
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/89f3594d0de58e8a57d92d497dea9fee3d4b9cda
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/07/msg00000.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SUVZA2YVOQJBJTDIDQ5HF5TAU2C6WP6H/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TCW2KZYJ2H6BKZE3CVLHRIXYDGNYYC5P/
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220225-0008/
• https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit?id=89f3594d0de58e8a57d92d497dea9fee3d4b9cda
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/501e38a5531efbd77d5c73c0ba838a889bfc1d74
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/89f3594d0de58e8a57d92d497dea9fee3d4b9cda
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/07/msg00000.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SUVZA2YVOQJBJTDIDQ5HF5TAU2C6WP6H/

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