Vulnerability in Linux

CVE-2022-50840

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: snic: Fix possible UAF in snic_tgt_create() Smatch reports a warning as follows: drivers/scsi/snic/snic_disc.c:307 snic_tgt_create() warn: '&tgt->list' not removed from list If device_add() fails in snic_tgt_create(), tgt will be freed, but tgt->list will not be removed from snic->disc.tgt_list, then list traversal may cause UAF. Remove from snic->disc.tgt_list before free().

Published · last modified .

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.003 (18.9th percentile), scored .

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 19th percentile — 18.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2022-50840: held from 0.003 to 0.003.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.003 · change: +0.000

Affected products

  • Linux — versions c8806b6c9e824f47726f2a9b7fbbe7ebf19306fa, 4.2, 0

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