CVE-2022-49770: ceph: avoid putting the realm twice when decoding snaps fails
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2022-49770 is a critical (CVSS 9.8) Use After Free vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.58% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 47.8% of scored vulnerabilities.
Severe, CVSS 9.8 (CVE.org); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources; EPSS 1% (FIRST, 03-11-2026)
Source freshness unavailable
How is this decided?Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 10 · Related 10Timeline
- 01-05-2025PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 15-08-2026Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ceph: avoid putting the realm twice when decoding snaps fails When decoding the snaps fails it maybe leaving the 'first_realm' and 'realm' pointing to the same snaprealm memory. And then it'll put it twice and could cause random use-after-free, BUG_ON, etc issues.
CVSS metrics
5 scores · 4 sources · 2 versions- OSV · UbuntuEcosystem advisory · calculated9.8CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- OSV · DebianEcosystem advisory · calculated7.8HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HDiffers
- NVDNIST7.8HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HDiffers
EPSS trend
Probability
0.58%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
48%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
Increase +0.01 pp
From 0.57% on 04-10-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in the CISA KEV catalog.
Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.
Not in the CIRCL catalog.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Known conditions: network-reachable, no authentication, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.
Ubuntu113 products
- linuxAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 5.4.0-144.161 | < 5.15.0-67.74
- linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
- linux-awsAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 5.4.0-1097.105 | < 5.15.0-1031.35
- linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
- linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Linux2 products
- linux≥ 982d6011bc30a26e8a3d546e0e7fc7db2c255d85, < 274e4c79a3a2a24fba7cfe0e41113f1138785c37 | ≥ 982d6011bc30a26e8a3d546e0e7fc7db2c255d85, < cb7495fe957526555782ce0723f79ce92a6db22e | ≥ 982d6011bc30a26e8a3d546e0e7fc7db2c255d85, < 044bc6d3c2c0e9090b0841e7b723875756534b45 | ≥ 982d6011bc30a26e8a3d546e0e7fc7db2c255d85, < 2f6e2de3a5289004650118b61f138fe7c28e1905 | ≥ 982d6011bc30a26e8a3d546e0e7fc7db2c255d85, < fd879c83e87735ab8f00ef7755752cf0cbae24b2 | ≥ 982d6011bc30a26e8a3d546e0e7fc7db2c255d85, < 51884d153f7ec85e18d607b2467820a90e0f4359 | 4.0
- linux_kernel≥ 2.6.35, < 4.19.268 | ≥ 4.20, < 5.4.226 | ≥ 5.5, < 5.10.157 | ≥ 5.11, < 5.15.81 | ≥ 5.16, < 6.0.10 | 2.6.34 | 2.6.34:rc2 | 2.6.34:rc3 | 2.6.34:rc4 | 2.6.34:rc5 | 2.6.34:rc6 | 2.6.34:rc7 | 6.1:rc1 | 6.1:rc2 | 6.1:rc3 | 6.1:rc4 | 6.1:rc5
Debian1 product
- linux< 6.0.10-1
3 vendors · 116 products