CVE-2022-2978
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-08-24 00:00
Modified
2024-08-03 00:53
Severity ?
Summary
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.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a Kernel Version: Linux kernel 6.0-rc3
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