CVE-2022-49178: 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: memstick/mspro_block: fix handling of read-only devices Use set_disk_ro to propagate the read-only state to the block layer instead of checking for it in ->open and leaking a reference in case of a read-only device.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: before 5.16.19 (fixed in 5.16.19); from 5.17, before 5.17.2 (fixed in 5.17.2)

Published 2025-02-26. Last modified 2026-08-04.