CVE-2022-0742

Memory leak in ICMP6 in Linux Kernel

State: Published
Severity: 9.1 Critical
Published: Mar 18, 2022
Updated: Apr 21, 2025
Reserved: Feb 23, 2022

Description

Memory leak in icmp6 implementation in Linux Kernel 5.13+ allows a remote attacker to DoS a host by making it go out-of-memory via icmp6 packets of type 130 or 131. We recommend upgrading past commit 2d3916f3189172d5c69d33065c3c21119fe539fc.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	9.1 Critical	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H	Google

Weaknesses

CWE-275 Permission Issues

Affected Products

Product	Versions
KernelLinux	5.13 and earlierAffected

References

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/03/15/3
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=2d3916f3189172d5c69d33065c3c21119fe539fc
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220425-0001/

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