5.5
CVSSv3

CVE-2022-41218

Published: 21/09/2022 Updated: 25/03/2024
CVSS v3 Base Score: 5.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 1.8
VMScore: 0

Vulnerability Summary

In drivers/media/dvb-core/dmxdev.c in the Linux kernel up to and including 5.19.10, there is a use-after-free caused by refcount races, affecting dvb_demux_open and dvb_dmxdev_release.

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Description<!---->A use-after-free flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s dvb-core subsystem (DVB API used by Digital TV devices) in how a user physically removed a USB device (such as a DVB demultiplexer device) while running malicious code This flaw allows a local user to crash or potentially escalate their privileges on the systemA use-after-f ...
use-after-free when dvb_demux_open() is called between the two syncs of dvbdev-&gt;users and dvr_dvbdev-&gt;users in dvb_dmxdev_release() ...

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Vulnerability Details for CVE-2022-41218

Introduction This vulnerability is a race condition vulnerability that occurs in drivers/media/dvb-core/dmxdevc Therefore, a race condition may occur in the usb device driver using this dmxdev This vulnerability could be used to trigger 3 UAFs Vulnerability 1 vmalloc UAF write First, the order of the exploit is as follows(I debugged using drivers/media/usb/ttusb-dec/ttusb_