CVE-2022-1016

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Aug 29, 2022
Updated: Aug 2, 2024
Reserved: Mar 17, 2022

Description

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel in net/netfilter/nf_tables_core.c:nft_do_chain, which can cause a use-after-free. This issue needs to handle 'return' with proper preconditions, as it can lead to a kernel information leak problem caused by a local, unprivileged attacker.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

CWE-824 Access of Uninitialized Pointer.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Kerneln/a	Affects v3.13-rc1 and later, Fixed in v5.18-rc1Affected

References

http://blog.dbouman.nl/2022/04/02/How-The-Tables-Have-Turned-CVE-2022-1015-1016/
https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2022/q1/205
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2066614
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-1016

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