CVE-2022-3104

At a glance

Severity: MEDIUM 5.5
EPSS: EPSS 0.26 % · percentile 18 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2022-12-14
Updated: 2026-10-14
Assigner: redhat
NVD status: Modified

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.16-rc6. lkdtm_ARRAY_BOUNDS in drivers/misc/lkdtm/bugs.c lacks check of the return value of kmalloc() and will cause the null pointer dereference.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 5.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	CISA-ADP
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 5.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 5.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	NVD · 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 (Secondary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-476

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2022-42531
GCVE · GCVE-0-2022-3104

CERT-FR advisories

CERTFR-2023-AVI-0453 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits Siemens · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2023-AVI-0066 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans le noyau Linux de SUSE · cert.ssi.gouv.fr

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* < 5.16.0
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.16.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.16.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.16.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.16.0:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.16.0:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.16.0:rc5:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.16.0:rc6:*:*:*:*:*:*

Affected products

Product	Versions
Kernel	affected Linux 5.16-rc6

References

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)	Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD