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Red Hat: CVE-2022-0492: cgroups v1 release_agent feature may allow privilege escalation (Multiple Advisories)

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Red Hat: CVE-2022-0492: cgroups v1 release_agent feature may allow privilege escalation (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
03/03/2022
Created
03/12/2022
Added
03/11/2022
Modified
03/13/2024

Description

A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel’s cgroup_release_agent_write in the kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c function. This flaw, under certain circumstances, allows the use of the cgroups v1 release_agent feature to escalate privileges and bypass the namespace isolation unexpectedly.

Solution(s)

  • redhat-upgrade-kernel
  • redhat-upgrade-kernel-rt

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