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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.4

CVE-2022-45888 json

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 6.0.9.

published 2022-11-25 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2022-48735

cvss
6.4
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 44%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 6.0.9. drivers/char/xillybus/xillyusb.c has a race condition and use-after-free during physical removal of a USB device.

Patch / fix

  • linux Debian 12 6.1.119-1
  • linux Debian 14, Debian 13 6.3.7-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-45888

  • kernel-rt Real Time Module 15 SP4, openSUSE Leap 15.4 5.14.21-150400.15.5.1
  • kernel-syms-rt Real Time Module 15 SP4, openSUSE Leap 15.4 5.14.21-150400.15.5.1
  • kernel-rt_debug Real Time Module 15 SP4, openSUSE Leap 15.4 5.14.21-150400.15.5.1
  • kernel-source-rt Real Time Module 15 SP4, openSUSE Leap 15.4 5.14.21-150400.15.5.1
  • dtb-aarch64 openSUSE Leap 15.4 5.14.21-150400.24.38.1
  • kernel-64kb SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP4, openSUSE Leap 15.4 5.14.21-150400.24.38.1
  • kernel-syms SLE Module for Development Tools 15 SP4, openSUSE Leap 15.4 5.14.21-150400.24.38.1
  • kernel-obs-qa openSUSE Leap 15.4 5.14.21-150400.24.38.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2022:4617-1SUSE-SU-2022:4585-1SUSE-SU-2022:4504-1

  • kernel-source openSUSE Tumbleweed 6.0.12-1.1
  • kernel-source openSUSE Tumbleweed 6.6.17-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:12560-1openSUSE-SU-2024:13704-1

  • kernel CBL-Mariner 2.0 5.15.122.1-2

azure linux advisories AZL-11487

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-2022-45888 updated cvss 6.4

kernel: use-after-free due to race condition in drivers/char/xillybus/xillyusb.c

  • 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 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 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

0.53% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 44% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 6.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization
  • CWE-416 Use After Free
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References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.