🛡️ CVE-2022-40768
🟡 CVSS 5.5 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-908 NVD
5.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

drivers/scsi/stex.c in the Linux kernel through 5.19.9 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory because stex_queuecommand_lck lacks a memset for the PASSTHRU_CMD case.

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-908
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2022-09-18
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2024-11-21

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
debian-linux
fedora
linux-kernel 5.19.9

References

Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/09/19/1
Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/09/09/1
Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/09/19/1
Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/09/09/1

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