CVE-2022-41218 (GCVE-0-2022-41218)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-09-21 00:00 – Updated: 2025-05-28 15:28
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
In drivers/media/dvb-core/dmxdev.c in the Linux kernel through 5.19.10, there is a use-after-free caused by refcount races, affecting dvb_demux_open and dvb_dmxdev_release.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: poc
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-05-28 15:28 UTC
CWE
- n/a
- CWE-416 - Use After Free
Assigner
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"url": "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/09/24/1"
},
{
"name": "DSA-5324",
"tags": [
"vendor-advisory"
],
"url": "https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5324"
},
{
"name": "[debian-lts-announce] 20230302 [SECURITY] [DLA 3349-1] linux-5.10 security update",
"tags": [
"mailing-list"
],
"url": "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/03/msg00000.html"
},
{
"name": "[debian-lts-announce] 20230503 [SECURITY] [DLA 3403-1] linux security update",
"tags": [
"mailing-list"
],
"url": "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/05/msg00006.html"
},
{
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=fd3d91ab1c6ab0628fe642dd570b56302c30a792"
}
]
}
},
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"datePublished": "2022-09-21T00:00:00.000Z",
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Experimental. This forecast is provided for visualization only and may change without notice. Do not use it for operational decisions.
Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
| Author | Source | Type | Date | Other |
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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