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Arch Linux: Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime (CVE-2022-1012)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:C)
Published
Aug 5, 2022
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

A memory leak problem was found in the TCP source port generation algorithm in net/ipv4/tcp.c due to the small table perturb size. This flaw may allow an attacker to information leak and may cause a denial of service problem.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest
Title
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