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Debian: CVE-2022-42895: linux, linux-5.10 -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2022-42895: linux, linux-5.10 -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/23/2022
Created
12/23/2022
Added
12/22/2022
Modified
11/08/2023

Description

There is an infoleak vulnerability in the Linux kernel's net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c's l2cap_parse_conf_req function which can be used to leak kernel pointers remotely. We recommend upgrading past commit  https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/b1a2cd50c0357f243b7435a732b4e62ba3157a2e https://www.google.com/url

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-linux
  • debian-upgrade-linux-5-10

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