VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2022-1975

CVSS score5.5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.24%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2022-08-31
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

There is a sleep-in-atomic bug in /net/nfc/netlink.c that allows an attacker to crash the Linux kernel by simulating a nfc device from user-space.

Weakness classification

  • secalert@redhat.com: CWE-248
  • nvd@nist.gov: NVD-CWE-noinfo

Primary references