CVE-2022-0494: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 4.4. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A kernel information leak flaw was identified in the scsi_ioctl function in drivers/scsi/scsi_ioctl.c in the Linux kernel. This flaw allows a local attacker with a special user privilege (CAP_SYS_ADMIN or CAP_SYS_RAWIO) to create issues with confidentiality.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 9.0 only; version 10.0 only; version 11.0 only
• Linux Linux Kernel: before 5.17 (fixed in 5.17); version 5.17 only

Published 2022-03-25. Last modified 2026-06-17.