CVE-2022-0494

Medium

Description

A kernel information leak flaw was identified in the scsi_ioctl function in drivers/scsi/scsi_ioctl.c in the Linux kernel. This flaw allows a local attacker with a special user privilege (CAP_SYS_ADMIN or CAP_SYS_RAWIO) to create issues with confidentiality.

SeverityMedium
CVSS4.4
Exploit probability—
ProductLinux Kernel
PublishedMar 25, 2022
First seenMar 25, 2022

How to fix

Update
  • linux linux_kernel5.17 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
linux linux_kernelv < 5.17, 5.175.17
debian debian_linux9.0, 10.0, 11.0—

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