CVE-2022-49122: 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: dm ioctl: prevent potential spectre v1 gadget It appears like cmd could be a Spectre v1 gadget as it's supplied by a user and used as an array index. Prevent the contents of kernel memory from being leaked to userspace via speculative execution by using array_index_nospec.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: before 4.9.311 (fixed in 4.9.311); from 4.10, before 4.14.276 (fixed in 4.14.276); from 4.15, 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); …

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