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CVE-2022-0854

Public on 2022-03-23
Modified on 2023-01-18
Description

A memory leak flaw was found in the Linux kernel's DMA subsystem, in the way a user calls DMA_FROM_DEVICE. This flaw allows a local user to read random memory from the kernel space.

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
5.1
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 kernel 2022-05-31 23:47 ALAS-2022-1591
Amazon Linux 2 - Core kernel 2022-05-31 23:50 ALAS2-2022-1798
Amazon Linux 2 - Kernel-5.10 Extra kernel 2022-06-04 00:05 ALAS2KERNEL-5.10-2022-014
Amazon Linux 2 - Kernel-5.4 Extra kernel 2022-06-04 00:07 ALAS2KERNEL-5.4-2022-026
Amazon Linux 2023 kernel 2023-02-17 20:46 ALAS2023-2023-070

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 5.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD CVSSv2 2.1 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
NVD CVSSv3 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N