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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2022-49788" idYear: 2022 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-05-01T14:09:20.506Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:06:47.654Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:49.724Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49788" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49788.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49788" title: "misc/vmw_vmci: fix an infoleak in vmci_host_do_receive_datagram()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmisc/vmw_vmci: fix an infoleak in vmci_host_do_receive_datagram()\n\n`struct vmci_event_qp` allocated by qp_notify_peer() contains padding,\nwhich may carry uninitialized data to the userspace, as observed by\nKMSAN:\n\n BUG: KMSAN: kernel-infoleak in instrument_copy_to_user ./include/linux/instrumented.h:121\n instrument_copy_to_user ./include/linux/instrumented.h:121\n _copy_to_user+0x5f/0xb0 lib/usercopy.c:33\n copy_to_user ./include/linux/uaccess.h:169\n vmci_host_do_receive_datagram drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_host.c:431\n vmci_host_unlocked_ioctl+0x33d/0x43d0 drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_host.c:925\n vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51\n ...\n\n Uninit was stored to memory at:\n kmemdup+0x74/0xb0 mm/util.c:131\n dg_dispatch_as_host drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_datagram.c:271\n vmci_datagram_dispatch+0x4f8/0xfc0 drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_datagram.c:339\n qp_notify_peer+0x19a/0x290 drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_queue_pair.c:1479\n qp_broker_attach drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_queue_pair.c:1662\n qp_broker_alloc+0x2977/0x2f30 drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_queue_pair.c:1750\n vmci_qp_broker_alloc+0x96/0xd0 drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_queue_pair.c:1940\n vmci_host_do_alloc_queuepair drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_host.c:488\n vmci_host_unlocked_ioctl+0x24fd/0x43d0 drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_host.c:927\n ...\n\n Local variable ev created at:\n qp_notify_peer+0x54/0x290 drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_queue_pair.c:1456\n qp_broker_attach drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_queue_pair.c:1662\n qp_broker_alloc+0x2977/0x2f30 drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_queue_pair.c:1750\n\n Bytes 28-31 of 48 are uninitialized\n Memory access of size 48 starts at ffff888035155e00\n Data copied to user address 0000000020000100\n\nUse memset() to prevent the infoleaks.\n\nAlso speculatively fix qp_notify_peer_local(), which may suffer from the\nsame problem." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"06164d2b72aa752ce4633184b3e0d97601017135","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7ccf7229b96fadc3a185d1391f814a604c7ef609"},{"version":"06164d2b72aa752ce4633184b3e0d97601017135","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f04586c2315cfd03d72ad0395705435e7ed07b1a"},{"version":"06164d2b72aa752ce4633184b3e0d97601017135","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5a275528025ae4bc7e2232866856dfebf84b2fad"},{"version":"06164d2b72aa752ce4633184b3e0d97601017135","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e7061dd1fef2dfb6458cd521aef27aa66f510d31"},{"version":"06164d2b72aa752ce4633184b3e0d97601017135","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"62634b43d3c4e1bf62fd540196f7081bf0885c0a"},{"version":"06164d2b72aa752ce4633184b3e0d97601017135","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8e2f33c598370bcf828bab4d667d1d38bcd3c57d"},{"version":"06164d2b72aa752ce4633184b3e0d97601017135","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"76c50d77b928a33e5290aaa9fdc10e88254ff8c7"},{"version":"06164d2b72aa752ce4633184b3e0d97601017135","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e5b0d06d9b10f5f43101bd6598b076c347f9295f"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.9","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.9"},{"version":"4.9.334","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.9.*"},{"version":"4.14.300","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.14.*"},{"version":"4.19.267","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.225","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.156","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.80","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.0.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.0.*"},{"version":"6.1","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## 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