Vulnerabilities > CVE-2022-41848 - Use After Free vulnerability in Linux Kernel
Attack vector
PHYSICAL Attack complexity
HIGH Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
drivers/char/pcmcia/synclink_cs.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 PCMCIA device while calling ioctl, aka a race condition between mgslpc_ioctl and mgslpc_detach.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/log/drivers/char/pcmcia/synclink_cs.c
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/log/drivers/char/pcmcia/synclink_cs.c
- https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220919040251.GA302541%40ubuntu/T/#rc85e751f467b3e6f9ccef92cfa7fb8a6cc50c270
- https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220919040251.GA302541%40ubuntu/T/#rc85e751f467b3e6f9ccef92cfa7fb8a6cc50c270