<p>Upgrade <code>RHEL:8</code> <code>kernel-cross-headers</code> to version 0:4.18.0-372.9.1.el8 or higher.<br>This issue was patched in <code>RHSA-2022:1988</code>.</p>

NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting kernel-cross-headers package, versions <0:4.18.0-372.9.1.el8

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0.04% (14^th percentile)

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Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL8-KERNELCROSSHEADERS-5704003
published 14 Dec 2022
disclosed 13 Dec 2022

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Introduced: 13 Dec 2022

CVE-2022-3106 Open this link in a new tab CWE-476 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:8 kernel-cross-headers to version 0:4.18.0-372.9.1.el8 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2022:1988.

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 RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.16-rc6. ef100_update_stats in drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/ef100_nic.c lacks check of the return value of kmalloc().

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1

Attack Vector (AV)

Local
Attack Complexity (AC)

Low
Privileges Required (PR)

Low
User Interaction (UI)

None

Scope (S)

Unchanged

Confidentiality (C)

None
Integrity (I)

None
Availability (A)

High

NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting kernel-cross-headers package, versions <0:4.18.0-372.9.1.el8

Severity

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating