CVE-2022-0847

Published Mar 10, 2022

Last updated 4 months ago

Analyzed

Description

A flaw was found in the way the "flags" member of the new pipe buffer structure was lacking proper initialization in copy_page_to_iter_pipe and push_pipe functions in the Linux kernel and could thus contain stale values. An unprivileged local user could use this flaw to write to pages in the page cache backed by read only files and as such escalate their privileges on the system.

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Primary
7.8
5.9
1.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
HIGH

CVSS 2.0

Primary
7.2
10
3.9
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Known exploits

Data from CISA

Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Apr 25, 2022

May 16, 2022

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Weaknesses

CWE-665
CWE-665

Source

secalert@redhat.com

Configurations