Use After Free The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package perf  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-PERF-2634667
  • published11 Apr 2022
  • disclosed8 Apr 2022

Introduced: 8 Apr 2022

CVE-2022-28796  (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 perf package and not the perf package as distributed by RHEL.

jbd2_journal_wait_updates in fs/jbd2/transaction.c in the Linux kernel before 5.17.1 has a use-after-free caused by a transaction_t race condition.