# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-49790"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-05-01T14:09:22.158Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:06:50.241Z"
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-2022-49790"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49790.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49790"
title: "Input: iforce - invert valid length check when fetching device IDs"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nInput: iforce - invert valid length check when fetching device IDs\n\nsyzbot is reporting uninitialized value at iforce_init_device() [1], for\ncommit 6ac0aec6b0a6 (\"Input: iforce - allow callers supply data buffer\nwhen fetching device IDs\") is checking that valid length is shorter than\nbytes to read. Since iforce_get_id_packet() stores valid length when\nreturning 0, the caller needs to check that valid length is longer than or\nequals to bytes to read."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"6ac0aec6b0a651d64eef759fddf17d9145b51033","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5d53797ce7ce8fb1d95a5bebc5efa9418c4217a3"},{"version":"6ac0aec6b0a651d64eef759fddf17d9145b51033","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"24cc679abbf31477d0cc6106ec83c2fbae6b3cdf"},{"version":"6ac0aec6b0a651d64eef759fddf17d9145b51033","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fdd57c20d4408cac3c3c535c120d244e083406c9"},{"version":"6ac0aec6b0a651d64eef759fddf17d9145b51033","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6365569d62a75ddf53fb0c2936c16587a365984c"},{"version":"6ac0aec6b0a651d64eef759fddf17d9145b51033","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b8ebf250997c5fb253582f42bfe98673801ebebd"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.3","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.3"},{"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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