CVE-2022-2978

Publication date

2022-08-24 00:00:00

Family

redhat

State

PUBLISHED

Description

A flaw use after free in the Linux kernel NILFS file system was found in the way user triggers function security_inode_alloc to fail with following call to function nilfs_mdt_destroy. A local user could use this flaw to crash the system or potentially escalate their privileges on the system.