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CVE-2022-44033

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 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: 2022-10-30 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-362

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 6.0.6. drivers/char/pcmcia/cm4040_cs.c has a race condition and resultant use-after-free if a physically proximate attacker removes a PCMCIA device while calling open(), aka a race condition between cm4040_open() and reader_detach().

Affected products

• Linux kernel: through 6.0.6

References

• https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=9b12f050c76f090cc6d0aebe0ef76fed79ec3f15
• https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220915020834.GA110086%40ubuntu/
• https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220919040457.GA302681%40ubuntu/
• https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=9b12f050c76f090cc6d0aebe0ef76fed79ec3f15
• https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220915020834.GA110086%40ubuntu/
• https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220919040457.GA302681%40ubuntu/

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