vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2022-1974: kernel: use-after-free in /net/nfc/core.c causes kernel crash by simulating nfc device from user-space

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:M/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
Aug 31, 2022
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 10, 2025

Description

A use-after-free flaw was found in the Linux kernel's NFC core functionality due to a race condition between kobject creation and delete. This vulnerability allows a local attacker with CAP_NET_ADMIN privilege to leak kernel information.

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
Title
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