CVE-2022-1998

At a glance

Severity: Not available
EPSS: EPSS 0.34 % · percentile 27 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2022-06-09
Updated: 2024-08-03
Assigner: redhat
NVD status: Modified

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.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 7.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 2.0	HIGH 7.2	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-416

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2022-25259
GCVE · GCVE-0-2022-1998

CERT-FR advisories

CERTFR-2022-AVI-697 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans le noyau Linux de SUSE · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2022-AVI-670 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans le noyau Linux de SUSE · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2022-AVI-1036 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans le noyau Linux de Red Hat · cert.ssi.gouv.fr

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 5.10.46 < 5.10.97
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 5.12.12 < 5.15.20
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 5.16.0 < 5.16.6
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:35:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:netapp:h410c_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:netapp:h300s_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:netapp:h500s_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:netapp:h700s_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:netapp:h410s_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Affected products

Product	Versions
Kernel	affected Linux kernel 5.17-rc3

References

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)	Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD