CVEvulnerability

CVE-2022-1012

8.2 HIGH Published 2022-08-05 Modified 2026-10-14 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2022-08-05
Last modified
2026-10-14
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
8.2 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-401

Description

A memory leak problem was found in the TCP source port generation algorithm in net/ipv4/tcp.c due to the small table perturb size. This flaw may allow an attacker to information leak and may cause a denial of service problem.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (< 5.18) • linux linux kernel 5.18

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness

References