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CVE-2022-50355

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-50355 is a memory management vulnerability in the Linux kernel's vt6655 driver, specifically concerning erroneous memory clean-up loops during initialization failures. This flaw, rated Medium (CVSS 5.5), could lead to a denial of service (A:H) due to memory leaks or invalid memory access, requiring local access and low privileges (AV:L/PR:L). There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 4.18, < 4.19.262CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 4.20, < 5.4.220CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 5.5, < 5.10.150CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 5.11, < 5.15.75CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 5.16, < 5.19.17CPE 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
0.19%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
8.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0019 is in the 45th 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-2022-50355

kernel: staging: vt6655: fix some erroneous memory clean-up loops

Sep 17, 2025

References

git.kernel.org / stable/c/2a2db520e3ca5aafba7c211abfd397666c9b5f9d
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/637672a71f5016a40b0a6c0f3c8ad25eacedc8c3
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/88b9cc60f26e8a05d1ddbddf91b09ca2915f20e0
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/95ac62e8545be2b0a8cae0beef7c682e2e470e48
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/a9e9806d1c315bc50dce05479a079b9a104474b8
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/ed11b73c963292e7b49c0f37025c58ed3b7921d6
Patch
git.kernel.org / stable/c/f19e5b7df54590c831f350381963f25585c8f7d5
Patch