CVE-2022-49444

HIGH
MEDIUM Priority: 0.02 BB Relevance: 39/100
Published: 2025-02-26 Modified: 2026-11-05 First seen: 2026-11-05 Status: active

Attack Surface

Low Complexity No Interaction Conf. Impact

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV: Local
AC: Low
PR: Low
UI: None
S: Unchanged
C: High
I: None
A: High

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: module: fix [e_shstrndx].sh_size=0 OOB access It is trivial to craft a module to trigger OOB access in this line: if (info->secstrings[strhdr->sh_size - 1] != '\0') { BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffc90000aa0fff PGD 100000067 P4D 100000067 PUD 100066067 PMD 10436f067 PTE 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI CPU: 7 PID: 1215 Comm: insmod Not tainted 5.18.0-rc5-00007-g9bf578647087-dirty #10 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.14.0-4.fc34 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:load_module+0x19b/0x2391 [rebased patch onto modules-next]

Weakness Classification (1)

Affected Software (12)

VendorProductVersion
Linux Linux ec2a29593c83ed71a7f16e3243941ebfcf75fdf6 < 09cb6663618a74fe5572a4931ecbf098832e79ec
Linux Linux ec2a29593c83ed71a7f16e3243941ebfcf75fdf6 < 921630e2e5124a04158129a8f22f4b425e61a858
Linux Linux ec2a29593c83ed71a7f16e3243941ebfcf75fdf6 < 45a76414b6d8b8b39c23fea53b9d20e831ae72a0
Linux Linux ec2a29593c83ed71a7f16e3243941ebfcf75fdf6 < 391e982bfa632b8315235d8be9c0a81374c6a19c
Linux Linux 05d891e76dde3e430c707dae7d85139794eeadbd
Linux Linux d802672c7f00963613f289579073ac519f0d306c
Linux Linux 214aa69cac91a723239118bbbfe77d5654ddff6b
Linux Linux 5.4.110 < 5.5
Linux Linux 5.10.26 < 5.11
Linux Linux 5.11.3 < 5.12
Linux Linux 5.12
linux linux_kernel 5.4.110 – 5.5

Bug Bounty Relevance

39 / 100
✓ Low complexity
✓ No user interaction

CVSS Score

7.1 / 10.0 v3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

0.29%
Raw Score 0.002880
Percentile 21.4%
Date 2026-11-06

EPSS Trend

2026-11-06
0.00288
2026-11-05
0.00288

Intelligence Sources

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