UBUNTU-CVE-2022-27950

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2022-27950

    Published: 28 Mar 2022Last Modified: 24 Oct 2025
    Upstream:
    CVE-2022-27950

    Summary:

    Details: In drivers/hid/hid-elo.c in the Linux kernel before 5.16.11, a memory leak exists for a certain hid_parse error condition.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-27950, https://git.kernel.org/linus/817b8b9c5396d2b2d92311b46719aad5d3339dbe, https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/03/13/1, https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/817b8b9c5396d2b2d92311b46719aad5d3339dbe, https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.16.11, https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=817b8b9c5396d2b2d92311b46719aad5d3339dbe, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-27950

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: linux-hwe-edge

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]~16.04.1?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    4.8.0-28.30~16.04.1
    4.8.0-30.32~16.04.1
    4.8.0-32.34~16.04.1
    4.8.0-34.36~16.04.1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
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    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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