A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is the function ipv6_renew_options of the component IPv6 Handler. The manipulation leads to memory leak. The attack potentially can be launched remotely if setsockopt of type IPV6_ADDRFORM being used locally. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The identifier VDB-211021 was assigned to this vulnerability. Reference: https://vuldb.com/?id.211021 Upstream patch: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=3c52c6bb831f6335c176a0fc7214e26f43adbd11
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 2150948]
This was fixed for Fedora with the 6.0.7 stable kernel updates.
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Via RHSA-2023:2148 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:2148
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Via RHSA-2023:2458 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:2458
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Via RHSA-2023:2736 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:2736
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Via RHSA-2023:2951 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:2951
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s): https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2022-3524