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National Vulnerability Database

National Vulnerability Database

NVD

National Vulnerability Database
  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2022-23222 Detail

Description

kernel/bpf/verifier.c in the Linux kernel through 5.15.14 allows local users to gain privileges because of the availability of pointer arithmetic via certain *_OR_NULL pointer types.


Metrics

 
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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST CVSS score
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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/01/14/1 CVE, MITRE Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/01/18/2 CVE, MITRE Exploit  Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/06/01/1 CVE, MITRE Mailing List  Patch  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/06/04/3 CVE, MITRE Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/06/07/3 CVE, MITRE Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1194765 CVE, MITRE
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=64620e0a1e712a778095bd35cbb277dc2259281f CVE, MITRE
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FCR3LIRUEXR7CA63W5M2HT3K63MZGKBR/ CVE, MITRE
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/Z5VTIZZUPC73IEJNZX66BY2YCBRZAELB/ CVE, MITRE
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220217-0002/ CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5050 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/01/13/1 CVE, MITRE Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2022-23222
NVD Published Date:
01/14/2022
NVD Last Modified:
11/21/2024
Source:
MITRE