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CVE-2022-40307

medium

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.19.8. drivers/firmware/efi/capsule-loader.c has a race condition with a resultant use-after-free.

References

https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5257

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/11/msg00001.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/10/msg00000.html

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9cb636b5f6a8cc6d1b50809ec8f8d33ae0c84c95

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2022-09-09

Updated: 2023-08-08

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 3.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00018