CVE-2022-48981: Linux Kernel

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/shmem-helper: Remove errant put in error path drm_gem_shmem_mmap() doesn't own this reference, resulting in the GEM object getting prematurely freed leading to a later use-after-free.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 5.2, before 5.4.227 (fixed in 5.4.227); from 5.5, before 5.10.159 (fixed in 5.10.159); from 5.11, before 5.15.83 (fixed in 5.15.83); from 5.16, before 6.0.13 (fixed in 6.0.13); version 6.1 only

Published 2024-10-21. Last modified 2026-08-04.