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Red Hat: CVE-2022-22942: CVE-2022-22942 kernel: failing usercopy allows for use-after-free exploitation (Multiple Advisories)

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Red Hat: CVE-2022-22942: CVE-2022-22942 kernel: failing usercopy allows for use-after-free exploitation (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
02/22/2022
Created
02/24/2022
Added
02/23/2022
Modified
03/13/2024

Description

The vmwgfx driver contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability that allows unprivileged users to gain access to files opened by other processes on the system through a dangling 'file' pointer.

Solution(s)

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

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