CVE-2022-1016

EPSS 0.4%CWE-824

Vexday Risk Score

3Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Track

No exploitation signal → monitor

CVSS —EPSS 0.4%KEV nãoPoC —Patch —

Lifecycle

29 Aug 2022Published on NVD

Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel in net/netfilter/nf_tables_core.c:nft_do_chain, which can cause a use-after-free. This issue needs to handle 'return' with proper preconditions, as it can lead to a kernel information leak problem caused by a local, unprivileged attacker.

Affected products

n/a · Kernel

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References

http://blog.dbouman.nl/2022/04/02/How-The-Tables-Have-Turned-CVE-2022-1015-1016/https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-1016 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2066614 https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2022/q1/205