Use of Uninitialized Variable Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,5.18-rc5)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
0.05% (16th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3006622
  • published2 May 2022
  • disclosed2 May 2022
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 2 May 2022

CVE-2022-29968  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-457  (opens in a new tab)

How 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.

References

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