Use After Free The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-tools-libs-devel  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-KERNELTOOLSLIBSDEVEL-2394334
  • published4 Feb 2022
  • disclosed11 Jan 2022

Introduced: 11 Jan 2022

CVE-2022-0487  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:8.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-tools-libs-devel package and not the kernel-tools-libs-devel package as distributed by RHEL.

A use-after-free vulnerability was found in rtsx_usb_ms_drv_remove in drivers/memstick/host/rtsx_usb_ms.c in memstick in the Linux kernel. In this flaw, a local attacker with a user privilege may impact system Confidentiality. This flaw affects kernel versions prior to 5.14 rc1.