CVE-2022-49074: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: irqchip/gic-v3: Fix GICR_CTLR.RWP polling It turns out that our polling of RWP is totally wrong when checking for it in the redistributors, as we test the *distributor* bit index, whereas it is a different bit number in the RDs... Oopsie boo. This is embarassing. Not only because it is wrong, but also because it took *8 years* to notice the blunder... Just fix the damn thing.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 3.17, before 4.19.238 (fixed in 4.19.238); from 4.20, before 5.4.189 (fixed in 5.4.189); from 5.5, before 5.10.111 (fixed in 5.10.111); from 5.11, before 5.15.34 (fixed in 5.15.34); from 5.16, before 5.16.20 (fixed in 5.16.20); from 5.17, before 5.17.3 (fixed in 5.17.3); …

Published 2025-02-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.