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CVE-2022-38457

2022-09-0900:00:00
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6.3 Medium

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

5.1%

A use-after-free(UAF) vulnerability was found in function
‘vmw_cmd_res_check’ in drivers/gpu/vmxgfx/vmxgfx_execbuf.c in Linux
kernel’s vmwgfx driver with device file ‘/dev/dri/renderD128 (or Dxxx)’.
This flaw allows a local attacker with a user account on the system to gain
privilege, causing a denial of service(DoS).

Bugs

Notes

Author Note
sbeattie ffb6260be81f (“drm/vmwgfx: clean up some error pointer checking”) does not address this issue, but looks to be covering something similar.

6.3 Medium

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

5.1%