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CVE-2022-45884

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.0 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: 2022-11-25 · updated 2026-08-13
• Weakness: CWE-362

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 6.0.9. drivers/media/dvb-core/dvbdev.c has a use-after-free, related to dvb_register_device dynamically allocating fops.

Affected products

• Linux kernel: before 4.19.311; from 4.20 before 5.4.249; from 5.5 before 5.10.185; from 5.11 before 5.15.116; from 5.16 before 6.1.33; from 6.2 before 6.3.7 — fixed in 4.19.311, 5.10.185, 5.15.116, 5.4.249, 6.1.33, 6.3.7
• 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

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 4.19.311, 5.10.185, 5.15.116, 5.4.249. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=627bb528b086b4136315c25d6a447a98ea9448d3
• https://lore.kernel.org/linux-media/20221115131822.6640-1-imv4bel%40gmail.com/
• https://lore.kernel.org/linux-media/20221115131822.6640-4-imv4bel%40gmail.com/
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230113-0006/
• https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=627bb528b086b4136315c25d6a447a98ea9448d3
• https://lore.kernel.org/linux-media/20221115131822.6640-1-imv4bel%40gmail.com/
• https://lore.kernel.org/linux-media/20221115131822.6640-4-imv4bel%40gmail.com/
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230113-0006/

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