The vulnerability of the cipso_v4_sock_setattr() function in the smc kernel component of the Linux operating system allows a hacker to cause a service failure.

The vulnerability of the cipsov4socksetattr function in the smc kernel component of the Linux operating system is related to the assignment of a null pointer. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker to cause a service failure...

CVE-2022-49639

CVE-2022-49639 refers to a Linux kernel issue in the cipso subsystem where sysctl read operations could race with concurrent writes. The root cause is missing synchronization while reading cipso sysctl variables, and the fix is to add READ_ONCE() to prevent data races. Public documents in the con...