CVE-2022-1976

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s implementation of IO-URING. This flaw allows an attacker with local executable permission to create a string of requests that can cause a use-after-free flaw within the kernel. This issue leads to memory corruption and possible privilege escalation.

Weakness

The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory “belongs” to the code that operates on the new pointer.

Affected Software

Potential Mitigations

References

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2092549
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230214-0005/
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2092549
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230214-0005/