CVE-2022-50274

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-416 Use After Free

Publication date:

15/09/2025

Last modified:

03/12/2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: dvbdev: adopts refcnt to avoid UAF dvb_unregister_device() is known that prone to use-after-free. That is, the cleanup from dvb_unregister_device() releases the dvb_device even if there are pointers stored in file->private_data still refer to it. This patch adds a reference counter into struct dvb_device and delays its deallocation until no pointer refers to the object.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.80 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

7.80

Severity 3.x

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::		4.14.303 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	4.15 (including)	4.19.270 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	4.20 (including)	5.4.229 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.5 (including)	5.10.163 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.11 (including)	5.15.86 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.16 (including)	6.0.16 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.1 (including)	6.1.2 (excluding)

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CVE-2022-50274

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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