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Red Hat: CVE-2022-2586: nf_tables cross-table potential use-after-free may lead to local privilege escalation (Multiple Advisories)

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Red Hat: CVE-2022-2586: nf_tables cross-table potential use-after-free may lead to local privilege escalation (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/08/2022
Created
11/10/2022
Added
11/09/2022
Modified
03/13/2024

Description

It was discovered that a nft object or expression could reference a nft set on a different nft table, leading to a use-after-free once that table was deleted.

Solution(s)

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

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