Security Advisory

CVE-2022-40476

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2022-09-14 20:06:21
Last updated 2024-08-03 12:21:45
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

A null pointer dereference issue was discovered in fs/io_uring.c in the Linux kernel before 5.15.62. A local user could use this flaw to crash the system or potentially cause a denial of service.