Use After Free The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-tools  (opens in a new tab)


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EPSS
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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS7-KERNELTOOLS-2979053
  • published10 Aug 2022
  • disclosed9 Aug 2022

Introduced: 9 Aug 2022

CVE-2022-2586  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (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.

It was discovered that a nft object or expression could reference a nft set on a different nft table, leading to a use-after-free once that table was deleted.