CVE-2022-2078

medium

Published 2022-09-20 · Modified 2022-11-08

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.5

Description

A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel's nft_set_desc_concat_parse() function .This flaw allows an attacker to trigger a buffer overflow via nft_set_desc_concat_parse() , causing a denial of service and possibly to run code.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

AlmaLinux Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
9	Fixed	`kernel-devel-5.14.0-70.26.1.el9_0.aarch64.rpm`

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`5.18.2-1`
sid	Fixed	`5.18.2-1`
forky	Fixed	`5.18.2-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`5.10.120-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`5.18.2-1`

Red Hat Fixed 2 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
9	Fixed	—
8	Fixed	—

Rocky Linux Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
8	Fixed	—

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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