CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-2978
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2022-08-24
- Last modified
- 2026-10-14
- 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
- Weaknesses
- CWE-416
Description
A flaw use after free in the Linux kernel NILFS file system was found in the way user triggers function security_inode_alloc to fail with following call to function nilfs_mdt_destroy. A local user could use this flaw to crash the system or potentially escalate their privileges on the system.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 2.6.12 < 4.9.331)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.10 < 4.14.296)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.15 < 4.19.262)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.20 < 5.4.218)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.148)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.73)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 5.19.15)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.0 < 6.0.1)
• debian debian linux 10.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-416 Use After Free weakness
References
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00034.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20220816040859.659129-1-dzm91%40hust.edu.cn/T/#u lore.kernel.org
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00034.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20220816040859.659129-1-dzm91%40hust.edu.cn/T/#u lore.kernel.org
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-794697.html cert-portal.siemens.com