🛡️ CVE-2022-0264
🟡 CVSS 5.5 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-755 NVD
5.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel's eBPF verifier when handling internal data structures. Internal memory locations could be returned to userspace. A local attacker with the permissions to insert eBPF code to the kernel can use this to leak internal kernel memory details defeating some of the exploit mitigations in place for the kernel. This flaws affects kernel versions < v5.16-rc6

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-755
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2022-02-04
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2024-11-21

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
linux-kernel

References

Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2041547
Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2041547

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