Is CVE-2022-49894 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2022-49894 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2022-49894?

CVE-2022-49894 has a CVSS v3 base score of 5.5 (MEDIUM).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2022-49894?

CVE-2022-49894 has an EPSS score of 0.14% (4th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How do I fix CVE-2022-49894?

Upgrade linux on debian 12 to 6.0.8-1 or later.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2022-49894

MEDIUM

5.5

CVSS v3

NVD

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cxl/region: Fix region HPA ordering validation Some regions may not have any address space allocated. Skip them when validating HPA order otherwise a crash like the following may result: devm_cxl_add_region: cxl_acpi cxl_acpi.0: decoder3.4: created region9 BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000 [..] RIP: 0010:store_targetN+0x655/0x1740 [cxl_core] [..] Call Trace: <TASK> kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x144/0x200 vfs_write+0x24a/0x4d0 ksys_write+0x69/0xf0 do_syscall_64+0x3a/0x90 store_targetN+0x655/0x1740: alloc_region_ref at drivers/cxl/core/region.c:676 (inlined by) cxl_port_attach_region at drivers/cxl/core/region.c:850 (inlined by) cxl_region_attach at drivers/cxl/core/region.c:1290 (inlined by) attach_target at drivers/cxl/core/region.c:1410 (inlined by) store_targetN at drivers/cxl/core/region.c:1453

CWE-476NULL Pointer Dereference

How to fix

Remediation Available

linuxDebian

Fixed in:6.0.8-1CVE-2022-49894

Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.

CVSS v3 Vector

Exploitability

Attack VectorLocal

Attack ComplexityLow

Privileges RequiredLow

User InteractionNone

ScopeUnchanged

Impact

ConfidentialityNone

IntegrityNone

AvailabilityHigh

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

Exploit Intelligence

0.14%probability of exploitation in 30 days

4thpercentile

Low risk: more likely to be exploited than 4% of all known CVEs.

References

Patch2

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CVE-2021-44224	High	8.2	82%	-	Fix
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