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Privilege Escalation Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [2.6.24-rc1,5.17-rc3)

0.0
high

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity High
    Confidentiality High
    Integrity High
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 9.52% (95th percentile)
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NVD
7.8 high
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SUSE
7 high
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Red Hat
7 high

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-2934720
  • published 23 Jun 2022
  • disclosed 23 Jun 2022
  • credit Tabitha Sable
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Introduced: 23 Jun 2022

CVE-2022-0492 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-264 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 5.17-rc3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in the Linux kernel’s cgroup_release_agent_write via the kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c function.