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Red Hat: CVE-2022-33981: kernel: use-after-free in floppy driver may lead to a DoS

Name: Red Hat: CVE-2022-33981: kernel: use-after-free in floppy driver may lead to a DoS
Creator: Red Hat
Published: 2022-06-18T00:00:00.000Z
Keywords: CVE, Red Hat, 2022, 33981, kernel, no-fix-redhat-rpm-package, Severity 2

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

Published

Jun 18, 2022

Added

Jul 9, 2025

Modified

Jul 9, 2025

Description

drivers/block/floppy.c in the Linux kernel before 5.17.6 is vulnerable to a denial of service, because of a concurrency use-after-free flaw after deallocating raw_cmd in the raw_cmd_ioctl function.

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package

References

NVD-CVE-2022-33981

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