vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2022-1016: uninitialized registers on stack in nft_do_chain can cause kernel pointer leakage to UM (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
2022-08-29
Added
2022-11-09
Modified
2025-03-17

Description

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel in net/netfilter/nf_tables_core.c:nft_do_chain, which can cause a use-after-free. This issue needs to handle 'return' with proper preconditions, as it can lead to a kernel information leak problem caused by a local, unprivileged attacker.

Solution(s)

redhat-upgrade-kernelredhat-upgrade-kernel-rt
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