Race Condition The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-headers  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-KERNELHEADERS-3378145
  • published4 Jun 2022
  • disclosed20 May 2022

Introduced: 20 May 2022

CVE-2022-1729  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-366  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:9.

NVD Description

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

A race condition was found the Linux kernel in perf_event_open() which can be exploited by an unprivileged user to gain root privileges. The bug allows to build several exploit primitives such as kernel address information leak, arbitrary execution, etc.