CVE-2022-0264

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Feb 4, 2022
Updated: Oct 8, 2026
Reserved: Jan 17, 2022

Description

A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel's eBPF verifier when handling internal data structures. Internal memory locations could be returned to userspace. A local attacker with the permissions to insert eBPF code to the kernel can use this to leak internal kernel memory details defeating some of the exploit mitigations in place for the kernel. This flaws affects kernel versions < v5.16-rc6

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

CWE-755

Affected Products

Product	Versions
kerneln/a	kernel v5.16-rc6Affected

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2041547

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