CVE-2022-1998

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Jun 9, 2022
Updated: Aug 3, 2024
Reserved: Jun 6, 2022

Description

A use after free in the Linux kernel File System notify functionality was found in the way user triggers copy_info_records_to_user() call to fail in copy_event_to_user(). A local user could use this flaw to crash the system or potentially escalate their privileges on the system.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

CWE-416

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Kerneln/a	Linux kernel 5.17-rc3Affected

References

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c?h=v5.17&id=ee12595147ac1fbfb5bcb23837e26dd58d94b15d
https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2022/q1/99
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220707-0009/

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