CVE-2022-41849

Description

drivers/video/fbdev/smscufx.c in the Linux kernel through 5.19.12 has a race condition and resultant use-after-free if a physically proximate attacker removes a USB device while calling open(), aka a race condition between ufx_ops_open and ufx_usb_disconnect.

References

https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/T/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00031.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00034.html

Details