Buffer Overflow The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-cross-headers (opens in a new tab)
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS8-KERNELCROSSHEADERS-2869837
- published14 Jun 2022
- disclosed31 May 2022
Introduced: 31 May 2022
CVE-2022-2078 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Centos security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Centos:8.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-cross-headers package and not the kernel-cross-headers package as distributed by Centos.
A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel's nft_set_desc_concat_parse() function .This flaw allows an attacker to trigger a buffer overflow via nft_set_desc_concat_parse() , causing a denial of service and possibly to run code.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-2078
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:7683
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2096178
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c?id=fecf31ee395b0295f2d7260aa29946b7605f7c85
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5161