Use of Uninitialized Variable Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,5.18-rc5)
Threat Intelligence
Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
0.05% (15th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3006622
- published 2 May 2022
- disclosed 2 May 2022
- credit Unknown
Introduced: 2 May 2022
CVE-2022-29968 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 5.18-rc5 or higher.
Overview
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use of Uninitialized Variable via the io_rw_init_file() function in fs/io_uring.c lacks initialization of kiocb->private.
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