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CVE-2022-1975 (GCVE-0-2022-1975)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-08-31 15:32 – Updated: 2024-08-03 00:24
VLAI
Summary
There is a sleep-in-atomic bug in /net/nfc/netlink.c that allows an attacker to crash the Linux kernel by simulating a nfc device from user-space.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
n/a Linux kernel Affected: Linux kernel 5.18 rc6
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