CVE-2022-4378
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-01-05 00:00
Modified
2024-08-03 01:41
Severity ?
Summary
A stack overflow flaw was found in the Linux kernel's SYSCTL subsystem in how a user changes certain kernel parameters and variables. This flaw allows a local user to crash or potentially escalate their privileges on the system.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/171289/Kernel-Live-Patch-Security-Notice-LNS-0092-1.html
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2152548Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git/tree/queue-6.0/proc-avoid-integer-type-confusion-in-get_proc_long.patchVendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git/tree/queue-6.0/proc-proc_skip_spaces-shouldn-t-think-it-is-working-on-c-strings.patchVendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://seclists.org/oss-sec/2022/q4/178Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/171289/Kernel-Live-Patch-Security-Notice-LNS-0092-1.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2152548Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git/tree/queue-6.0/proc-avoid-integer-type-confusion-in-get_proc_long.patchVendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git/tree/queue-6.0/proc-proc_skip_spaces-shouldn-t-think-it-is-working-on-c-strings.patchVendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2022/q4/178Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a kernel Version: kernel 6.0.12
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