Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2022-50255

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - tracing: Fix reading strings from synthetic events The follow commands caused a crash: cd /sys/kernel/tracing echo 's:open char file' dynamicevents echo...

CVE-2022-50255

CVE-2022-50255 (Linux kernel tracing) : The issue affects the tracing subsystem where the synthetic event field, specifically the character array file[], could be read as a string without validating the user-space address. This caused crashes when reading from user memory during open/openat strin...