What is CVE-2022-49162?

CVE-2022-49162 is a high-severity vulnerability in Linux. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2025-02-26.

How severe is CVE-2022-49162?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Linux

CVE-2022-49162

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: video: fbdev: sm712fb: Fix crash in smtcfb_write() When the sm712fb driver writes three bytes to the framebuffer, the driver will crash: BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffc90001ffffff RIP: 0010:smtcfb_write+0x454/0x5b0 Call Trace: vfs_write+0x291/0xd60 ? do_sys_openat2+0x27d/0x350 ? __fget_light+0x54/0x340 ksys_write+0xce/0x190 do_syscall_64+0x43/0x90 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae Fix it by removing the open-coded endianness fixup-code.

EPSS: 0.003 (19.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Linux — versions d7edf47947f9d921be6ca5fc8e83049124466f98, 2.6.33, 0
Linux Linux_kernel

References

416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Patch)
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Patch)
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Patch)
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Patch)
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Patch)
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Patch)
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Patch)
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Patch)
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Patch)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-49162?: CVE-2022-49162 is a high-severity vulnerability in Linux. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2025-02-26.
How severe is CVE-2022-49162?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.