Race Condition and Use-After-Free Vulnerability in Linux Kernel's PCMCIA Driver

CVE-2022-44032 · MEDIUM Severity

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

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 6.0.6. drivers/char/pcmcia/cm4000_cs.c has a race condition and resultant use-after-free if a physically proximate attacker removes a PCMCIA device while calling open(), aka a race condition between cmm_open() and cm4000_detach().

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