K63603485 : Linux kernel vulnerability CVE-2022-0847

Security Advisory Description

A flaw was found in the way the “flags” member of the new pipe buffer structure was lacking proper initialization in copy_page_to_iter_pipe and push_pipe functions in the Linux kernel and could thus contain stale values. An unprivileged local user could use this flaw to write to pages in the page cache backed by read only files and as such escalate their privileges on the system. (CVE-2022-0847)

Impact

For products with Nonein the Versions known to be vulnerable column, there is no impact.

For products with ****** in the various columns, F5 is still researching the issue and will update this article after confirming the required information. F5 Support has no additional information about this issue.