CVE-2022-40307

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Summary

CVECVE-2022-40307
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-09-09 05:15:07 UTC
Updated2026-10-14 18:17:05 UTC
DescriptionAn issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.19.8. drivers/firmware/efi/capsule-loader.c has a race condition with a resultant use-after-free.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v3.1 4.7 MEDIUM from [email protected]

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

Problem Types: CWE-362 | n/a

CVSS v3.1 Breakdown

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

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

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified
ADP Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 TM MFP - GNU/Linux Subsystem affected V1.1 custom Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-5257-1 linux af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org Third Party Advisory
efi: capsule-loader: Fix use-after-free in efi_capsule_write · torvalds/linux@9cb636b · GitHub af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] [DLA 3173-1] linux-5.10 security update af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.debian.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-831302.html 0b142b55-0307-4c5a-b3c9-f314f3fb7c5e cert-portal.siemens.com
cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-794697.html 0b142b55-0307-4c5a-b3c9-f314f3fb7c5e cert-portal.siemens.com
[SECURITY] [DLA 3131-1] linux security update af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.debian.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 181091 Debian Security Update for linux (DLA 3131-1)
  • 181145 Debian Security Update for linux (DSA 5257-1)
  • 181190 Debian Security Update for linux-5.10 (DLA 3173-1)
  • 184846 Debian Security Update for linux (CVE-2022-40307)
  • 199087 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel Vulnerabilities (USN-5792-1)
  • 199088 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel Vulnerabilities (USN-5791-1)
  • 199089 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel Vulnerabilities (USN-5793-1)
  • 199090 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel Vulnerabilities (USN-5790-1)
  • 199091 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (Azure) Vulnerabilities (USN-5791-2)
  • 199094 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel Vulnerabilities (USN-5792-2)
  • 199096 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (Azure) Vulnerabilities (USN-5793-2)
  • 199098 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (IBM) Vulnerabilities (USN-5793-4)
  • 199099 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel Vulnerabilities (USN-5793-3)
  • 199100 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (Azure) Vulnerabilities (USN-5791-3)
  • 199119 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (BlueField) Vulnerabilities (USN-5815-1)
  • 199179 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (GKE) Vulnerabilities (USN-5877-1)
  • 199334 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (OEM) Vulnerabilities (USN-6071-1)
  • 354071 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel : ALAS-2022-1636
  • 354075 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel : ALAS2-2022-1852
  • 354081 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel : ALAS2KERNEL-5.4-2022-036
  • 354082 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel : ALAS2KERNEL-5.15-2022-008
  • 354084 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel : ALAS2KERNEL-5.10-2022-020
  • 354439 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel : ALAS2022-2022-150
  • 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
  • 377891 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for cloud-kernel (ALINUX3-SA-2023:0002)
  • 378043 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for cloud-kernel (ALINUX2-SA-2023:0011)
  • 378468 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for cloud-kernel (ALINUX3-SA-20230042)
  • 378512 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for cloud-kernel (ALINUX3-SA-2023:0042)
  • 6140356 AWS Bottlerocket Security Update for kernel (GHSA-vqwx-xh77-jjj9)
  • 672454 EulerOS Security Update for kernel (EulerOS-SA-2022-2848)
  • 672474 EulerOS Security Update for kernel (EulerOS-SA-2022-2823)
  • 752944 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2022:4273-1)
  • 752959 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2022:4272-1)
  • 753038 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2022:4573-1)
  • 753039 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2022:4574-1)
  • 753051 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2022:4589-1)
  • 753060 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2022:4615-1)
  • 903899 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (10904)
  • 903915 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (10954)
  • 904095 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (10954-1)
  • 904261 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (10904-1)
  • 905881 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (10954-2)
  • 906246 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (10904-2)

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