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CVE-2022-49417

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-49417 is a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in the iwlwifi driver of the Linux kernel. This flaw, rated Medium severity (CVSS 5.5), could allow a local attacker to cause a denial of service (system crash) due to a failure in SKB allocation. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 5.17, < 5.17.14CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 5.18, < 5.18.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.25%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
16.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0025 is in the 70th percentile among its peer group of 15,940 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2022-49417

kernel: iwlwifi: mei: fix potential NULL-ptr deref

Feb 26, 2025

References

git.kernel.org / stable/c/29b81de94d62b5e2704bb5106b3e701ca8d7c7a4
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/5d8d06fd3a02919100b28f927bcb76481ec0a0e3
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/78488a64aea94a3336ee97f345c1496e9bc5ebdf
Patch