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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.5

CVE-2022-26966 json

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.16.12.

published 2022-03-12 4 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2022-31509

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 28%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.16.12. drivers/net/usb/sr9700.c allows attackers to obtain sensitive information from heap memory via crafted frame lengths from a device.

Patch / fix

  • linux linux_kernel 5.16.12
  • linux Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 5.16.12-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-26966

  • linux Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 4.15.0-177.186
  • linux Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-117.132
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 4.15.0-1128.137
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1078.84
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1078.84
  • linux-gke Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1074.79
  • linux-ibm Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1026.29
  • linux-iot Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1004.6

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2022-26966

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • kernel-rt SLE Real Time 12 SP5 4.12.14-10.84.1
  • kernel-syms-rt SLE Real Time 12 SP5 4.12.14-10.84.1
  • kernel-rt_debug SLE Real Time 12 SP5 4.12.14-10.84.1
  • kernel-source-rt SLE Real Time 12 SP5 4.12.14-10.84.1
  • kernel-syms SLES 12 SP2-BCL 4.4.121-92.172.1
  • kernel-source SLES 12 SP2-BCL 4.4.121-92.172.1
  • kernel-default SLES 12 SP2-BCL 4.4.121-92.172.1
  • kernel-syms SLES for SAP 12 SP3, SLES 12 SP3-LTSS, SLES 12 SP3-BCL +3 more 4.4.180-94.161.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2022:1402-1SUSE-SU-2022:1283-1SUSE-SU-2022:1270-1SUSE-SU-2022:1267-1SUSE-SU-2022:1266-1SUSE-SU-2022:1257-1

  • dtb-aarch64 openSUSE Leap 15.3 5.3.18-150300.59.60.4
  • kernel-64kb openSUSE Leap 15.3 5.3.18-150300.59.60.4
  • kernel-syms openSUSE Leap 15.3 5.3.18-150300.59.60.4
  • kernel-obs-qa openSUSE Leap 15.3 5.3.18-150300.59.60.4
  • kernel-source openSUSE Leap 15.3 5.3.18-150300.59.60.4
  • kernel-default openSUSE Leap 15.3 5.3.18-150300.59.60.4
  • kernel-preempt openSUSE Leap 15.3 5.3.18-150300.59.60.4
  • kernel-kvmsmall openSUSE Leap 15.3 5.3.18-150300.59.60.4

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2022:1039-1

  • kernel CBL-Mariner 2.0 5.15.26.1-2

azure linux advisories AZL-9019

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2022-26966 updated cvss 5.5

kernel: heap memory leak in drivers/net/usb/sr9700.c

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 more
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.35% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 28% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 2.1 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Classification

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References

Sources

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