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CVE-2022-49178 (GCVE-0-2022-49178)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-02-26 01:55 – Updated: 2026-08-05 08:54
VLAI
Title
memstick/mspro_block: fix handling of read-only devices
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: memstick/mspro_block: fix handling of read-only devices Use set_disk_ro to propagate the read-only state to the block layer instead of checking for it in ->open and leaking a reference in case of a read-only device.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: baf8532a147d5b76681ce040e2c8f25a3f0e718d , < 057b53c4f87690d626203acef8b63d52a9bf2f43 (git)
Affected: baf8532a147d5b76681ce040e2c8f25a3f0e718d , < 6a0725b9d78ff6efdc95a37e4f05072e79c63918 (git)
Affected: baf8532a147d5b76681ce040e2c8f25a3f0e718d , < 6dab421bfe06a59bf8f212a72e34673e8acf2018 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 2.6.25
Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.25 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.16.19 , ≤ 5.16.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.17.2 , ≤ 5.17.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.18 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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