Security Advisory

CVE-2022-2991

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2022-08-25 17:24:41
Last updated 2024-08-03 00:53:00
Assigner redhat
State PUBLISHED

Description

A heap-based buffer overflow was found in the Linux kernels LightNVM subsystem. The issue results from the lack of proper validation of the length of user-supplied data prior to copying it to a fixed-length heap-based buffer. This vulnerability allows a local attacker to escalate privileges and execute arbitrary code in the context of the kernel. The attacker must first obtain the ability to execute high-privileged code on the target system to exploit this vulnerability.