vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2022-44033: linux -- security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Oct 30, 2022
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 6.0.6. drivers/char/pcmcia/cm4040_cs.c has a race condition and resultant use-after-free if a physically proximate attacker removes a PCMCIA device while calling open(), aka a race condition between cm4040_open() and reader_detach().

Solution

no-fix-debian-deb-package
Title
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