CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-1016
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2022-08-29
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-824, CWE-909
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.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (<= 3.12)
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.13 <= 5.17)
• linux linux kernel 3.13
• redhat enterprise linux 8.0
• redhat enterprise linux 9.0
Related
References
- http://blog.dbouman.nl/2022/04/02/How-The-Tables-Have-Turned-CVE-2022-1015-1016/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-1016 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2066614 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2022/q1/205 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://blog.dbouman.nl/2022/04/02/How-The-Tables-Have-Turned-CVE-2022-1015-1016/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-1016 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2066614 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2022/q1/205 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory