CVE-2022-1998

EPSS 0.3%CWE-416

Vexday Risk Score

3Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Track

No exploitation signal → monitor

CVSS —EPSS 0.3%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

09 Jun 2022Published on NVD

Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.

A use after free in the Linux kernel File System notify functionality was found in the way user triggers copy_info_records_to_user() call to fail in copy_event_to_user(). A local user could use this flaw to crash the system or potentially escalate their privileges on the system.

Affected products

n/a · Kernel

References

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c?h=v5.17&id=ee12595147ac1fbfb5bcb23837e26dd58d94b15d https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2022/q1/99 https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220707-0009/