CVE-2022-0854 (GCVE-0-2022-0854)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-03-23 19:46 – Updated: 2024-08-02 23:40
VLAI
Summary
A memory leak flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s DMA subsystem, in the way a user calls DMA_FROM_DEVICE. This flaw allows a local user to read random memory from the kernel space.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a Kernel Affected: Linux kernel 5.17-rc8
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