CVE-2022-2978

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-416 Use After Free

Publication date:

24/08/2022

Last modified:

07/11/2023

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.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.80 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

7.80

Severity 3.x

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	2.6.12 (including)	4.9.331 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	4.10 (including)	4.14.296 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	4.15 (including)	4.19.262 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	4.20 (including)	5.4.218 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.5 (including)	5.10.148 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.11 (including)	5.15.73 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.16 (including)	5.19.15 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.0 (including)	6.0.1 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:::::::*

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CVE-2022-2978

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools