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Improper Initialization Affecting kernel-core package, versions <0:4.18.0-348.20.1.el8_5

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on Rocky Linux security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity
    Mature
    EPSS
    12.09% (96th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-ROCKY8-KERNELCORE-3276876
  • published 3 Feb 2023
  • disclosed 10 Mar 2022
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Introduced: 10 Mar 2022

CVE-2022-0847 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-665 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Rocky-Linux:8 kernel-core to version 0:4.18.0-348.20.1.el8_5 or higher.
This issue was patched in RLSA-2022:0825.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-core package and not the kernel-core package as distributed by Rocky-Linux. See How to fix? for Rocky-Linux:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

A flaw was found in the way the "flags" member of the new pipe buffer structure was lacking proper initialization in copy_page_to_iter_pipe and push_pipe functions in the Linux kernel and could thus contain stale values. An unprivileged local user could use this flaw to write to pages in the page cache backed by read only files and as such escalate their privileges on the system.

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CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

7.8 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Local
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    Low
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    High
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SUSE

7.8 high
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Red Hat

7.8 high