CVE-2022-32981

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Summary

CVECVE-2022-32981
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-06-10 20:15:08 UTC
Updated2026-08-26 17:59:02 UTC
DescriptionAn issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.18.3 on powerpc 32-bit platforms. There is a buffer overflow in ptrace PEEKUSER and POKEUSER (aka PEEKUSR and POKEUSR) when accessing floating point registers.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v3.1 7.8 HIGH from [email protected]

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

Problem Types: CWE-120 | n/a

VersionSourceTypeScoreSeverityVector
3.1[email protected]Primary7.8HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
2.0[email protected]Primary4.6AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS v3.1 Breakdown

Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

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

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
kernel/git/powerpc/linux.git - The powerpc tree af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 git.kernel.org Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
oss-security - CVE-2022-32981: Linux kernel for powerpc 32-bit, buffer overflow in ptrace PEEKUSER/POKEUSER af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.openwall.com Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 180607 Debian Security Update for linux (CVE-2022-32981)
  • 353976 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel : ALAS-2022-1604
  • 353985 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel : ALAS2-2022-1813
  • 353993 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel : ALAS2KERNEL-5.10-2022-016
  • 353994 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel : ALAS2KERNEL-5.4-2022-028
  • 354007 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel : ALAS2KERNEL-5.10-2022-015
  • 354008 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel : ALAS2KERNEL-5.4-2022-030
  • 354017 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel : ALAS2KERNEL-5.4-2022-032
  • 354018 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel : ALAS2KERNEL-5.15-2022-003
  • 354022 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel : ALAS2KERNEL-5.15-2022-002
  • 354023 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel : ALAS2KERNEL-5.10-2022-017
  • 354024 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel : ALAS2KERNEL-5.15-2022-004
  • 354270 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel : ALAS2022-2022-114
  • 354468 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel : ALAS2022-2022-185
  • 354542 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel : ALAS-2022-185
  • 355199 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel : ALAS2023-2023-070
  • 377117 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for cloud-kernel (ALINUX3-SA-2022:0158)
  • 378043 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for cloud-kernel (ALINUX2-SA-2023:0011)
  • 6140333 AWS Bottlerocket Security Update for kernel (GHSA-jm52-596v-2798)
  • 672158 EulerOS Security Update for kernel (EulerOS-SA-2022-2415)
  • 672218 EulerOS Security Update for kernel (EulerOS-SA-2022-2619)
  • 902346 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (9945)
  • 902354 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (9930)
  • 902630 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (9930-1)
  • 902702 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (9945-1)
  • 906153 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (9945-2)
  • 906301 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (9930-2)

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