CVE-2022-0742
Memory leak in ICMP6 in Linux Kernel
At a glance Severity CRITICAL 9.1 EPSS EPSS 5.04 % · percentile 92 (2026-10-27) State PUBLISHED Published 2022-03-18 Updated 2025-04-21 Assigner Google NVD status Modified Description Memory leak in icmp6 implementation in Linux Kernel 5.13+ allows a remote attacker to DoS a host by making it go out-of-memory via icmp6 packets of type 130 or 131. We recommend upgrading past commit 2d3916f3189172d5c69d33065c3c21119fe539fc.
Scores Version Score Vector Scored by CVSS 3.1 CRITICAL 9.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H Google CVSS 3.1 CRITICAL 9.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H NVD · cve-coordination@google.com (Secondary) CVSS 3.1 HIGH 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary) CVSS 2.0 HIGH 7.8 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
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CERT-FR advisories
Affected configurations (NVD CPE) cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 5.13 < 5.15.27cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 5.16 < 5.16.13cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.17:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.17:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.17:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.17:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.17:rc5:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.17:rc6:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:netapp:a400_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:netapp:aff_8300_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:netapp:aff_8700_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:netapp:fas_8300_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:netapp:fas_8700_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:netapp:h300e_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:netapp:h300s_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:netapp:h410c_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:netapp:h410s_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:netapp:h500e_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:netapp:h500s_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:netapp:h700e_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:netapp:h700s_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*Affected products
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