CVE-2022-44032 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 6.0.6. drivers/char/pcmcia/cm4000_cs.c has a race condition and resultant use-after-free if a physically proximate attacker removes a PCMCIA device while calling open(), aka a race condition between cmm_open() and cm4000_detach().

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Physical

Attack Complexity High

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00032.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Vendors	Products
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Advisories

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Fixes

Solution

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Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=9b12f050c76f090cc6d0aebe0ef76fed79ec3f15
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220915020834.GA110086%40ubuntu/
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220919040701.GA302806%40ubuntu/
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220919040701.GA302806@ubuntu/
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-44032
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-44032

History

Wed, 25 Feb 2026 18:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2022-10-30T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-03T13:47:05.286Z

Reserved: 2022-10-30T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-44032

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T13:47:05.286Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-10-30T01:15:08.823

Modified: 2024-11-21T07:27:34.457

Link: CVE-2022-44032

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2022-09-18T06:30:00Z

Links: CVE-2022-44032 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

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