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CVE-2022-29968

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2022-05-02 · updated 2026-10-02
• Weakness: CWE-909

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.17.5. io_rw_init_file in fs/io_uring.c lacks initialization of kiocb->private.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: 34, 35, 36
• Linux kernel: from 5.16 before 5.17.6 — fixed in 5.17.6
• 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
• NetApp Solidfire & Hci Management Node: all versions

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 5.17.6. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/32452a3eb8b64e01e2be717f518c0be046975b9d
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LU7MT7BPTA2NG24BTLZF5ZWYTLSO7BU3/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TLWTG3TWIMLNQEVTA3ZQYVLLU2AJM3DY/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XA7UZ3HS73KXVYCIKN5ZDH7LLLGPUMOZ/
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220715-0009/
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/32452a3eb8b64e01e2be717f518c0be046975b9d
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LU7MT7BPTA2NG24BTLZF5ZWYTLSO7BU3/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TLWTG3TWIMLNQEVTA3ZQYVLLU2AJM3DY/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XA7UZ3HS73KXVYCIKN5ZDH7LLLGPUMOZ/
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220715-0009/

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