CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-1998
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2022-06-09
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-416
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.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.10.46 < 5.10.97)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.12.12 < 5.15.20)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16.0 < 5.16.6)
• fedoraproject fedora 35
• redhat enterprise linux 9.0
• netapp h410c firmware
• netapp h300s firmware
• netapp h500s firmware
• netapp h700s firmware
• netapp h410s firmware
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-416 Use After Free weakness
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 Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2022/q1/99 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220707-0009/ Third Party Advisory
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c?h=v5.17&id=ee12595147ac1fbfb5bcb23837e26dd58d94b15d Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2022/q1/99 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220707-0009/ Third Party Advisory