CVE-2022-1215 (GCVE-0-2022-1215)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-05-31 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-02 23:55
VLAI
Summary
A format string vulnerability was found in libinput
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a libinput Affected: libinput 1.10 and above
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