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CVE-2022-41849

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.2 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: 2022-09-30 · updated 2026-10-14
• Weakness: CWE-362

Description

drivers/video/fbdev/smscufx.c in the Linux kernel through 5.19.12 has a race condition and resultant use-after-free if a physically proximate attacker removes a USB device while calling open(), aka a race condition between ufx_ops_open and ufx_usb_disconnect.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 10.0
• Linux kernel: through 5.19.12

References

• https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=5610bcfe8693c02e2e4c8b31427f1bdbdecc839c
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00031.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00034.html
• https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220925133243.GA383897%40ubuntu/T/
• https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=5610bcfe8693c02e2e4c8b31427f1bdbdecc839c
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00031.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00034.html
• https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220925133243.GA383897%40ubuntu/T/
• https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-794697.html

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