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CVE-2022-43750

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.7 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: 2022-10-26 · updated 2026-10-14
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

drivers/usb/mon/mon_bin.c in usbmon in the Linux kernel before 5.19.15 and 6.x before 6.0.1 allows a user-space client to corrupt the monitor's internal memory.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 10.0
• Linux kernel: from 2.6.21 before 4.9.331; from 4.10 before 4.14.296; from 4.15 before 4.19.262; from 4.20 before 5.4.218; from 5.5 before 5.10.148; from 5.11 before 5.15.73 — fixed in 4.14.296, 4.19.262, 4.9.331, 5.10.148, 5.15.73, 5.19.15

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 4.14.296, 4.19.262, 4.9.331, 5.10.148. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.19.15
• https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/ChangeLog-6.0.1
• https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=a659daf63d16aa883be42f3f34ff84235c302198
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a659daf63d16aa883be42f3f34ff84235c302198
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/11/msg00001.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00034.html
• https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.19.15
• https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/ChangeLog-6.0.1
• https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=a659daf63d16aa883be42f3f34ff84235c302198
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a659daf63d16aa883be42f3f34ff84235c302198
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/11/msg00001.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00034.html

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