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Debian: CVE-2022-1975: linux -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2022-1975: linux -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
07/04/2022
Created
07/16/2022
Added
07/04/2022
Modified
09/09/2022

Description

There is a sleep-in-atomic bug in /net/nfc/netlink.c that allows an attacker to crash the Linux kernel by simulating a nfc device from user-space.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-linux

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