# CVE-2022-44032: An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 6.0.6.

- Severity: CVSS 6.4 (Medium), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2022-10-30 · Updated: 2024-08-03

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 6.0.6. drivers/char/pcmcia/cm4000_cs.c has a race condition and resultant use-after-free if a physically proximate attacker removes a PCMCIA device while calling open(), aka a race condition between cmm_open() and cm4000_detach().

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## References

- https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220919040701.GA302806%40ubuntu/
- https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220915020834.GA110086%40ubuntu/
- https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=9b12f050c76f090cc6d0aebe0ef76fed79ec3f15

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