vulnerability

Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2022-49698): Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Feb 26, 2025
Added
Mar 19, 2025
Modified
Feb 13, 2026

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

netfilter: use get_random_u32 instead of prandom

bh might occur while updating per-cpu rnd_state from user context,
ie. local_out path.

BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: nginx/2725
caller is nft_ng_random_eval+0x24/0x54 [nft_numgen]
Call Trace:
check_preemption_disabled+0xde/0xe0
nft_ng_random_eval+0x24/0x54 [nft_numgen]

Use the random driver instead, this also avoids need for local prandom
state. Moreover, prandom now uses the random driver since d4150779e60f
("random32: use real rng for non-deterministic randomness").

Based on earlier patch from Pablo Neira.

Solutions

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