🛡️ CVE-2022-1016
🟡 CVSS 5.5 — Medium ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-824 NVD
5.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel in net/netfilter/nf_tables_core.c:nft_do_chain, which can cause a use-after-free. This issue needs to handle 'return' with proper preconditions, as it can lead to a kernel information leak problem caused by a local, unprivileged attacker.

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-824
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2022-08-29
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2024-11-21
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
enterprise-linux
linux-kernel

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