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CVE-2022-2938

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 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: 2022-08-23 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-416

Description

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's implementation of Pressure Stall Information. While the feature is disabled by default, it could allow an attacker to crash the system or have other memory-corruption side effects.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: 35
• Linux kernel: from 5.2 before 5.4.177; from 5.5 before 5.10.97; from 5.11 before 5.15.19; from 5.16 before 5.16.5 — fixed in 5.10.97, 5.15.19, 5.16.5, 5.4.177
• NetApp H300S Firmware: all versions
• NetApp H410C Firmware: all versions
• NetApp H410S Firmware: all versions
• NetApp H500S Firmware: all versions
• NetApp H700S Firmware: all versions
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 8.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 5.10.97, 5.15.19, 5.16.5, 5.4.177. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=a06247c6804f1a7c86a2e5398a4c1f1db1471848
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221223-0002/
• https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=a06247c6804f1a7c86a2e5398a4c1f1db1471848
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221223-0002/

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