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Arch Linux: Denial of service (CVE-2022-28390)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Apr 3, 2022
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Jun 22, 2026

Description

A double-free flaw was found in the Linux kernel in the ems_usb_start_xmit function. This flaw allows an attacker to create a memory leak and corrupt the underlying data structure by calling free more than once.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest

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