CVE intelligence

CVE-2022-3114

Vulnerability intelligence

Published Dec 14, 2022Sources checked Oct 6, 2026

5.5MEDIUMCVSS out of 10

What this means

Review the available evidence

CVE-2022-3114 and is rated Medium severity with a CVSS score of 5.5. It is not in the current CISA KEV record we collected. That does not prove exploitation has not occurred.

What to do next

Remediation and response

Ubuntu Security Notices guidance

Vendor revision: Oct 6, 2026

Vendor remediation details

This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems: - User-space API (UAPI); - ARM32 architecture; - ARM64 architecture; - MIPS architecture; - PowerPC architecture; - RISC-V architecture; - User-Mode Linux (UML); - x86 architecture; - Block layer subsystem; - Cryptographic API; - ACPI drivers; - Android drivers; - Serial ATA and Parallel ATA drivers; - Drivers core; - DRBD Distributed Replicated Block Device drivers; - Rados block device (RBD) driver; - Bluetooth drivers; - Cdrom driver; - Character device driver; - Hardware random number generator core; - TPM device driver; - Data acquisition framework and drivers; - CPU frequency scaling framework; - Hardware crypto device drivers; - DAX dirext access to differentiated memory framework; - DMA engine subsystem; - FireWire subsystem;

Ubuntu Security Notices guidance

Vendor revision: Oct 6, 2026

Vendor remediation details

This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems: - ARM64 architecture; - User-space API (UAPI); - ARM32 architecture; - MIPS architecture; - PowerPC architecture; - RISC-V architecture; - User-Mode Linux (UML); - x86 architecture; - Block layer subsystem; - Cryptographic API; - ACPI drivers; - Android drivers; - Serial ATA and Parallel ATA drivers; - Drivers core; - DRBD Distributed Replicated Block Device drivers; - Rados block device (RBD) driver; - Bluetooth drivers; - Cdrom driver; - Character device driver; - Hardware random number generator core; - TPM device driver; - Data acquisition framework and drivers; - CPU frequency scaling framework; - Hardware crypto device drivers; - DAX dirext access to differentiated memory framework; - DMA engine subsystem; - FireWire subsystem;

Ubuntu Security Notices guidance

Vendor revision: Oct 6, 2026

Vendor remediation details

CISA KEVNot listedBased on the latest collected catalog

EPSS0.2%Estimated 30-day exploitation probability

Ransomware useNot markedCISA KEV ransomware field

Threat actors0Source-linked actor relationships

Overview

What is CVE-2022-3114?

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.16-rc6. imx_register_uart_clocks in drivers/clk/imx/clk.c lacks check of the return value of kcalloc() and will cause the null pointer dereference.

Source: NVD