Bug 2092537 (CVE-2022-1972)

Summary: CVE-2022-1972 kernel: out-of-bounds write vulnerability in nftable may lead to local privilege escalation
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Marian Rehak <mrehak>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: acaringi, adscvr, airlied, alciregi, bhu, bskeggs, chwhite, crwood, ddepaula, dhoward, dvlasenk, fhrbata, fpacheco, hdegoede, hkrzesin, hpa, jarod, jarodwilson, jfaracco, jferlan, jforbes, jglisse, jlelli, joe.lawrence, jonathan, josef, jshortt, jstancek, jwboyer, jwyatt, kcarcia, kernel-maint, kernel-mgr, lgoncalv, linville, lzampier, masami256, mchehab, nmurray, ptalbert, qzhao, rvrbovsk, scweaver, security-response-team, steved, walters, williams
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OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: kernel 5.18 Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
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CVE-2022-1972 is duplicate of CVE-2022-2078, so please consider CVE-2022-2078 instead. https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-2078
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Last Closed: 2022-07-31 11:56:20 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 2096816, 2110177    
Bug Blocks: 2092538, 2092539    

Description Marian Rehak 2022-06-01 18:56:33 UTC
Out-of-bounds write vulnerability in nftable can lead to privilege escalation.

Comment 2 Marian Rehak 2022-06-14 11:12:55 UTC
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-1972

Comment 3 Marian Rehak 2022-06-14 11:13:09 UTC
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2096816]

Comment 4 Justin M. Forbes 2022-06-16 14:10:05 UTC
This was fixed for Fedora with the 5.17.13 stable kernel updates.

Comment 12 Alex 2022-07-31 11:56:20 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 2096178 ***