Security Advisory

CVE-2022-0646

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2022-02-18 17:50:36
Last updated 2024-08-02 23:32:46
Assigner redhat
State PUBLISHED

Description

A flaw use after free in the Linux kernel Management Component Transport Protocol (MCTP) subsystem was found in the way user triggers cancel_work_sync after the unregister_netdev during removing device. A local user could use this flaw to crash the system or escalate their privileges on the system. It is actual from Linux Kernel 5.17-rc1 (when mctp-serial.c introduced) till 5.17-rc5.