CVE-2022-1679

Se ha encontrado un fallo de uso de memoria previamente liberada en el controlador del adaptador inalámbrico Atheros del kernel de Linux en la forma en que un usuario fuerza la función ath9k_htc_wait_for_target a fallar con algunos mensajes de entrada. Este fallo permite a un usuario local bloquear o escalar potencialmente sus privilegios en el sistema

Zhenpeng Lin discovered that the network packet scheduler implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly remove all references to a route filter before freeing it in some situations. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. It was discovered that the netfilter subsystem of the Linux kernel did not prevent one nft object from referencing an nft set in another nft table, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code.