🛡️ CVE-2022-2959
🟠 CVSS 7.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit NVD
7.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

A race condition was found in the Linux kernel's watch queue due to a missing lock in pipe_resize_ring(). The specific flaw exists within the handling of pipe buffers. The issue results from the lack of proper locking when performing operations on an object. This flaw allows a local user to crash the system or escalate their privileges on the system.

Details

Severity High
CVSS Score 7.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-01-01
Updated 2026-06-13
Modified 2026-06-12

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
:linux-kernel: :0 :2023-01-05
linux-kernel 5.18 5.18.2

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