CVE-2022-40768 Information disclosure in n/a

What is CVE-2022-40768?

CVE-2022-40768 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 18 Sep 2022. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

drivers/scsi/stex.c in the Linux kernel through 5.19.9 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory because stex_queuecommand_lck lacks a memset for the PASSTHRU_CMD case.

Weakness: CWE-908

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-40768?

It affects 3 products.

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

How do I fix CVE-2022-40768?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2022-40768 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-40768 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 AZL-10978, DEBIAN-CVE-2022-40768, GHSA-c4m7-c462-xmqc, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-40768.