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CVE-2022-0168

MEDIUM

4.4

Description

A denial of service (DOS) issue was found in the Linux kernel’s smb2_ioctl_query_info function in the fs/cifs/smb2ops.c Common Internet File System (CIFS) due to an incorrect return from the memdup_user function. This flaw allows a local, privileged (CAP_SYS_ADMIN) attacker to crash the system.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score4.4

SeverityMEDIUM

CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack VectorLOCAL

ComplexityLOW

Privileges RequiredHIGH

User InteractionNONE

Published8/26/2022

Last Modified11/21/2024

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

linux:linux_kernelredhat:enterprise_linux

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-476CWE-476

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-0168(secalert@redhat.com)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2037386(secalert@redhat.com)

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=d6f5e358452479fa8a773b5c6ccc9e4ec5a20880(secalert@redhat.com)

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-0168(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2037386(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=d6f5e358452479fa8a773b5c6ccc9e4ec5a20880(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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