Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2022-49697

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Fix requestsock leak in sk lookup helpers A customer reported a requestsocket leak in a...

SUSE CVE-2022-49697

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Fix requestsock leak in sk lookup helpers A customer reported a requestsocket leak in a Calico cloud environment. We found that a BPF program was doing a socket lookup with takes a refcnt on the socket and that it was findin...

CVE-2022-49697

CVE-2022-49697 concerns a leak in the Linux kernel caused by a BPF lookup path that could leak a request_sock. The issue occurs when a BPF program performs a socket lookup that takes a refcnt on the socket and, after locating the child request_socket, returns the parent LISTEN socket via sk_to_fu...