# CVE-2022-47946: An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel 5.10.x before 5.10.155.

- Severity: CVSS 5.5 (Medium), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2022-12-23 · Updated: 2026-10-14

## Affected

No affected packages have been listed by the sources.

## Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel 5.10.x before 5.10.155. A use-after-free in io_sqpoll_wait_sq in fs/io_uring.c allows an attacker to crash the kernel, resulting in denial of service. finish_wait can be skipped. An attack can occur in some situations by forking a process and then quickly terminating it. NOTE: later kernel versions, such as the 5.15 longterm series, substantially changed the implementation of io_sqpoll_wait_sq.

## What to do

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## References

- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/12/22/2
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?h=v5.10.161&id=0f544353fec8e717d37724d95b92538e1de79e86
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/12/27/1

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