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Oracle Linux: CVE-2022-24448: ELSA-2022-8267: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update (MODERATE) (Multiple Advisories)

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Oracle Linux: CVE-2022-24448: ELSA-2022-8267: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update (MODERATE) (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
02/04/2022
Created
04/15/2022
Added
04/12/2022
Modified
07/22/2024

Description

An issue was discovered in fs/nfs/dir.c in the Linux kernel before 5.16.5. If an application sets the O_DIRECTORY flag, and tries to open a regular file, nfs_atomic_open() performs a regular lookup. If a regular file is found, ENOTDIR should occur, but the server instead returns uninitialized data in the file descriptor. A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. When an application tries to open a directory (using the O_DIRECTORY flag) in a mounted NFS filesystem, a lookup operation is performed. If the NFS server returns a file as a result of the lookup, the NFS filesystem returns an uninitialized file descriptor instead of the expected ENOTDIR value. This flaw leads to the kernel's data leak into the userspace.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel

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