CVE-2022-1966 Information

Description

A use-after-free vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel’s Netfilter subsystem in net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c. This flaw allows a local attacker with user access to cause a privilege escalation issue.

Reference

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net.git/commit/net/netfilter?id=520778042ccca019f3ffa136dd0ca565c486cedd https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/05/31/1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2092427 https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MO6Y3TC4WUUNKRP7OQA26OVTZTPCS6F2/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UIZTJOJCVVEJVOQSCHE6IJQKMPISHQ5L/