Redhat.comRH:CVE-2022-24122CVE-2022-24122
7.8 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
6.9 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
31.4%
A use-after-free vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel’s alloc_ucounts in the kernel/ucount.c function. This flaw allows a local attacker with unprivileged user namespaces to cause a privilege escalation problem.
Mitigation
To mitigate this problem, disable unprivileged user namespaces:
# sysctl -w kernel.unprivileged_userns_clone=0
References
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2048492
git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f9d87929d451d3e649699d0f1d74f71f77ad38f5
lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-24122
www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-24122
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/01/29/1
Related
7.8 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
6.9 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
31.4%