CVE-2022-38096

2022-10-1314:30:18

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5.5 Medium

CVSS3

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

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

1.7 Low

CVSS2

Access Vector

LOCAL

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

SINGLE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

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

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

5.3%

JSON

A NULL pointer dereference issue was found in the Linux kernel’s vmwgfx driver in vmw_cmd_dx_define_query. This flaw allows a local, unprivileged attacker with access to either /dev/dri/card0 or /dev/dri/rendererD128, who can issue an ioctl() on the resulting file descriptor, to crash the system, causing a denial of service.

Mitigation

To mitigate this issue, it is possible to prevent the affected code from being loaded by blacklisting the vmwgfx kernel module. For instructions relating to blacklisting a kernel module, please see <https://access.redhat.com/solutions/41278>.