CVE-2022-41849

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

Description

drivers/video/fbdev/smscufx.c in the Linux kernel through 5.19.12 has a race condition and resultant use-after-free if a physically proximate attacker removes a USB device while calling open(), aka a race condition between ufx_ops_open and ufx_usb_disconnect.

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-2022-41849

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-41849.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed6.2-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed6.0.3-1
debian debianbullseyefixed5.10.158-1
debian debianforkyfixed6.0.3-1
debian debiansidfixed6.0.3-1
debian debiantrixiefixed6.0.3-1

References

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