CVE-2022-3106

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 9
Modified
Published: 14 Dec 2022, 00:00
Last modified:22 Apr 2025, 02:42

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
low
22/100
CVSS Score
5.5 MEDIUM
v3.1 (cve.org)
EPSS Score
0.11% LOW
0% probability +0.08%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

14 Dec 2022, 00:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
22 Apr 2025, 02:42
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.16-rc6. ef100_update_stats in drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/ef100_nic.c lacks check of the return value of kmalloc().

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.1•MEDIUM•Score: 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.11%• Percentile: 28%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-476•NULL Pointer Dereference

    The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

Affected Systems

  • linux•linux_kernel

    < 5.16.0 | 5.16.0 | 5.16.0:rc1 | 5.16.0:rc2 | 5.16.0:rc3 | 5.16.0:rc4 | 5.16.0:rc5 | 5.16.0:rc6

References (2)