CVE-2022-1015

Se ha encontrado un fallo en el kernel de Linux en el archivo linux/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c del subsistema netfilter. Este fallo permite a un usuario local causar un problema de escritura fuera de límites

David Bouman discovered that the netfilter subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly validate passed user register indices. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. David Bouman and Billy Jheng Bing Jhong discovered that a race condition existed in the io_uring subsystem in the Linux kernel, leading to a use- after-free vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. Various other issues were also addressed.