CVE-2022-49643: 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: ima: Fix a potential integer overflow in ima_appraise_measurement When the ima-modsig is enabled, the rc passed to evm_verifyxattr() may be negative, which may cause the integer overflow problem.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 5.4, before 5.4.207 (fixed in 5.4.207); from 5.5, before 5.10.132 (fixed in 5.10.132); from 5.11, before 5.15.56 (fixed in 5.15.56); from 5.16, before 5.18.13 (fixed in 5.18.13); version 5.19 only

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