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CVE-2022-26490

• 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: 2022-03-06 · updated 2026-09-01
• Weakness: CWE-120

Description

st21nfca_connectivity_event_received in drivers/nfc/st21nfca/se.c in the Linux kernel through 5.16.12 has EVT_TRANSACTION buffer overflows because of untrusted length parameters.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 9.0, 10.0
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 34, 35
• Linux kernel: before 4.9.309; from 4.10 before 4.14.274; from 4.15 before 4.19.237; from 4.20 before 5.4.188; from 5.5 before 5.10.109; from 5.11 before 5.15.32 — fixed in 4.14.274, 4.19.237, 4.9.309, 5.10.109, 5.15.32, 5.16.18
• 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 4.14.274, 4.19.237, 4.9.309, 5.10.109. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/4fbcc1a4cb20fe26ad0225679c536c80f1648221
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/07/msg00000.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BG4J46EMFPDD5QHYXDUI3PJCZQ7HQAZR/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/C5AUUDGSDLGYU7SZSK4PFAN22NISQZBT/
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220429-0004/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5127
• https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5173
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/4fbcc1a4cb20fe26ad0225679c536c80f1648221
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/07/msg00000.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BG4J46EMFPDD5QHYXDUI3PJCZQ7HQAZR/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/C5AUUDGSDLGYU7SZSK4PFAN22NISQZBT/
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220429-0004/

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