CVE-2022-33986: Insyde Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 6.4. EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

DMA attacks on the parameter buffer used by the VariableRuntimeDxe software SMI handler could lead to a TOCTOU attack. DMA attacks on the parameter buffer used by the software SMI handler used by the driver VariableRuntimeDxe could lead to a TOCTOU attack on the SMI handler and lead to corruption of SMRAM. This issue was discovered by Insyde engineering during a security review. This issue is fixed in Kernel 5.4: 05.44.23 and Kernel 5.5: 05.52.23. CWE-367 CWE-367 Report at: https://www.insyde.com/security-pledge/SA-2022056

Affected products

• Insyde Kernel: from 5.4, before 5.4.05.44.23 (fixed in 5.4.05.44.23); from 5.5, before 5.5.05.52.23 (fixed in 5.5.05.52.23)

Published 2022-11-15. Last modified 2026-06-17.