CVE-2022-40768

high
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
8.0

Description

drivers/scsi/stex.c in the Linux kernel through 5.19.9 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory because stex_queuecommand_lck lacks a memset for the PASSTHRU_CMD case.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-40768

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-40768.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed6.2-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed6.0.2-1
debian debianbullseyefixed5.10.148-1
debian debianforkyfixed6.0.2-1
debian debiansidfixed6.0.2-1
debian debiantrixiefixed6.0.2-1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.