CVE-2022-1975: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

There is a sleep-in-atomic bug in /net/nfc/netlink.c that allows an attacker to crash the Linux kernel by simulating a nfc device from user-space.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: version 5.18 only

Published 2022-08-31. Last modified 2026-06-17.