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CVE-2022-22071: Qualcomm Multiple Chipsets Use-After-Free Vulnerability

criticalknown exploitedCVE-2022-22071
Actively exploited. At least one CVE in this advisory is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog — exploitation has been observed in the wild. Treat remediation as urgent.
Multiple Qualcomm chipsets contain a use-after-free vulnerability when process shell memory is freed using IOCTL munmap call and process initialization is in progress.

CSIRTS triage

vendor: QualcommMemory corruption
What
A use-after-free vulnerability occurs when process shell memory is freed during initialization, leading to potential exploitation.
Who is affected
Users of multiple Qualcomm chipsets are affected by this vulnerability.
Urgency
Immediate remediation is necessary due to active exploitation and critical severity.
Action
Apply the security updates provided by Qualcomm.

AI-assisted analysis generated from the source advisory — verify against the original.

Details

Source
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (US · database · site)
Severity
critical
Published
2023-12-05
Exploitation
Observed in the wild (CISA KEV)

Original advisory: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-22071

Exploitation outlook

EPSS (FIRST.org) estimates each CVE’s probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — here is the CSIRTS.com read on those numbers.

Referenced CVEs

CVECSIRTS overviewExternal
CVE-2022-22071coverage & exploitation statusNVD · CVE.org

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