CVE-2022-41848: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 4.2. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

drivers/char/pcmcia/synclink_cs.c in the Linux kernel through 5.19.12 has a race condition and resultant use-after-free if a physically proximate attacker removes a PCMCIA device while calling ioctl, aka a race condition between mgslpc_ioctl and mgslpc_detach.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: up to and including 5.19.12

Published 2022-09-30. Last modified 2026-06-17.