Use After Free The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-tools-libs-devel (opens in a new tab)
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- published15 Mar 2025
- disclosed9 Aug 2022
Introduced: 9 Aug 2022
CVE-2022-2586 (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-tools-libs-devel package and not the kernel-tools-libs-devel package as distributed by RHEL.
It was discovered that a nft object or expression could reference a nft set on a different nft table, leading to a use-after-free once that table was deleted.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-2586
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:8267
- https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/use-after-free-vulnerability-linked-chain-between-nft-tables-cve-2022-2586
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2022-2586
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-2586
- https://lore.kernel.org/netfilter-devel/20220809170148.164591-1-cascardo@canonical.com/T/#t
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5557-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5560-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5560-2
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5562-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5564-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5565-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5566-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5567-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5582-1
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/08/09/5
- https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-22-1118/
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog
- https://github.com/aels/CVE-2022-2586-LPE