CVEvulnerability

CVE-2022-1462

6.3 MEDIUM Published 2022-06-02 Modified 2026-10-14 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2022-06-02
Last modified
2026-10-14
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
3.3 LOW — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-362

Description

An out-of-bounds read flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s TeleTYpe subsystem. The issue occurs in how a user triggers a race condition using ioctls TIOCSPTLCK and TIOCGPTPEER and TIOCSTI and TCXONC with leakage of memory in the flush_to_ldisc function. This flaw allows a local user to crash the system or read unauthorized random data from memory.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel • redhat enterprise linux 8.0 • redhat enterprise linux 9.0 • debian debian linux 10.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness

References