CVE-2022-1280: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 6.3. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A use-after-free vulnerability was found in drm_lease_held in drivers/gpu/drm/drm_lease.c in the Linux kernel due to a race problem. This flaw allows a local user privilege attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) or a kernel information leak.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 5.17, up to and including 5.17.4
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 8.0 only

Published 2022-04-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.