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medium 5.5

CVE-2022-3061 json

Found Linux Kernel flaw in the i740 driver.

published 2022-09-01 4 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2022-42493

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 21%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Found Linux Kernel flaw in the i740 driver. The Userspace program could pass any values to the driver through ioctl() interface. The driver doesn't check the value of 'pixclock', so it may cause a divide by zero error.

Patch / fix

  • linux Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 5.18.2-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-3061

  • linux Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 4.15.0-201.212
  • linux Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-136.153
  • linux Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-57.63
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 4.15.0-1147.159
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1093.101
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1027.31
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1097.106
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1026.33

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2022-3061

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

  • linux-lts Arch Linux 6.2-1
  • linux-hardened Arch Linux 6.2-1
  • linux-zen Arch Linux 6.2-1
  • linux Arch Linux 6.2-1

arch linux advisories AVG-2834AVG-2835AVG-2836AVG-2837

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-2022-3061 updated cvss 6.2

kernel: fbdev: i740fb: divide-by-zero in drivers/video/fbdev/i740fb.c could lead to DoS

  • 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, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-tools, +3 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-core, kernel-tools, python3-perf, +17 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +82 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

0.29% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 21% 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:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • n/a Kernel

Classification

Weakness
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References

Sources

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