CVE-2022-3169 Denial of service in Kernel

What is CVE-2022-3169?

CVE-2022-3169 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 9 Sep 2022. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. A denial of service flaw may occur if there is a consecutive request of the NVME_IOCTL_RESET and the NVME_IOCTL_SUBSYS_RESET through the device file of the driver, resulting in a PCIe link disconnect.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-3169?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Fedoraproject Fedora, Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2022-3169?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2022-3169 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-3169 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2022-3169, GHSA-jf26-p43w-867v, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-3169.