Improper Update of Reference Count The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-rt  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS7-KERNELRT-2860824
  • published7 Jun 2022
  • disclosed20 May 2022

Introduced: 20 May 2022

CVE-2022-1678  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-911  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Centos security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Centos:7.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-rt package and not the kernel-rt package as distributed by Centos.

An issue was discovered in the Linux Kernel from 4.18 to 4.19, an improper update of sock reference in TCP pacing can lead to memory/netns leak, which can be used by remote clients.