Security advisory

{
  "id": "7519bab76ac14fcb7b8457f922c82eeab3e33c80e752515c36521f335026d08d",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-0854",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2022-0854",
    "summary": "A memory leak flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s DMA subsystem, in the way a user calls DMA_FROM_DEVICE. This flaw allows a local user to read random memory from the kernel space.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2022-0854",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "unknown",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2022-0854",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2022-0854"
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "09688c0166e76ce2fb85e86b9d99be8b0084cdf9"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "09688c0166e76ce2fb85e86b9d99be8b0084cdf9"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "Linux kernel 5.17-rc8"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "Linux kernel 5.17-rc8"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "AFFECTED_FIELD",
                    "strategy": "StandaloneSingleVersion"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "Linux kernel 5.17-rc8",
            "v5.17-rc8"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-0854.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:46.002575925Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/kernel/dma/swiotlb.c?h=v5.17-rc8&id=aa6f8dcbab473f3a3c7454b74caa46d36cdc5d13",
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/0xxx/CVE-2022-0854.json",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-0854",
        "https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5161",
        "https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5173",
        "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/07/msg00000.html"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "cwe_ids": [
          "CWE-200"
        ],
        "cna_assigner": "redhat",
        "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/0xxx/CVE-2022-0854.json"
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2022-0854",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": null
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 514127,
  "published_at": "2022-03-23T19:46:15+00:00"
}