CVE-2022-3169

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 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: 2022-09-09 · updated 2026-10-14
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. A denial of service flaw may occur if there is a consecutive request of the NVME_IOCTL_RESET and the NVME_IOCTL_SUBSYS_RESET through the device file of the driver, resulting in a PCIe link disconnect.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 10.0
Fedoraproject Fedora: 36
Linux kernel: 4.19

References

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214771
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00031.html
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214771
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00031.html
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-794697.html

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