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CVE-2022-2978

High 7.8

A flaw use after free in the Linux kernel NILFS file system was found in the way user triggers function security_inode_alloc to fail with following call to function nilfs_mdt_destroy. A local user could use this flaw to crash the system or potentially escalate their privileges on the system.

Affected products and versions

debian debian_linux
linux linux_kernel · 2.6.12 → 4.9.331
linux linux_kernel · 4.10 → 4.14.296
linux linux_kernel · 4.15 → 4.19.262
linux linux_kernel · 4.20 → 5.4.218
linux linux_kernel · 5.11 → 5.15.73
linux linux_kernel · 5.16 → 5.19.15
linux linux_kernel · 5.5 → 5.10.148
linux linux_kernel · 6.0 → 6.0.1

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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