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Tracker / CVE-2022-2977

CVE-2022-2977

High 7.8

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel implementation of proxied virtualized TPM devices. On a system where virtualized TPM devices are configured (this is not the default) a local attacker can create a use-after-free and create a situation where it may be possible to escalate privileges on the system.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel · 4.12 → 4.14.276
linux linux_kernel · 4.15 → 4.19.238
linux linux_kernel · 4.20 → 5.4.189
linux linux_kernel · 5.11 → 5.15.33
linux linux_kernel · 5.16 → 5.16.19
linux linux_kernel · 5.17 → 5.17.1
linux linux_kernel · 5.5 → 5.10.110

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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