Information Exposure The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-tools  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS7-KERNELTOOLS-2814298
  • published11 May 2022
  • disclosed2 May 2022

Introduced: 2 May 2022

CVE-2022-1012  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (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-tools package and not the kernel-tools package as distributed by Centos.

A memory leak problem was found in the TCP source port generation algorithm in net/ipv4/tcp.c due to the small table perturb size. This flaw may allow an attacker to information leak and may cause a denial of service problem.