CVE-2022-41218 (GCVE-0-2022-41218)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-09-21 00:00 – Updated: 2025-05-28 15:28
VLAI
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)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
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