CVE-2022-44033: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 6.4. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 6.0.6. drivers/char/pcmcia/cm4040_cs.c has a race condition and resultant use-after-free if a physically proximate attacker removes a PCMCIA device while calling open(), aka a race condition between cm4040_open() and reader_detach().

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: up to and including 6.0.6

Published 2022-10-30. Last modified 2026-06-17.