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Vulnerability IntelligenceCVE-2022-0168

CVE-2022-0168

MEDIUM4.4

A denial of service (DOS) issue was found in the Linux kernel’s smb2_ioctl_query_info function in the fs/cifs/smb2ops

Published Aug 26, 2022

Modified 1 years ago

Details

A denial of service (DOS) issue was found in the Linux kernel’s smb2_ioctl_query_info function in the fs/cifs/smb2ops.c Common Internet File System (CIFS) due to an incorrect return from the memdup_user function. This flaw allows a local, privileged (CAP_SYS_ADMIN) attacker to crash the system.

References

WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-0168 WEBhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2037386 WEBhttps://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=d6f5e358452479fa8a773b5c6ccc9e4ec5a20880 ADVISORYhttps://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-0168

CVSS Analysis

CVSS v3.1

4.4

Exploitability

Attack Vector

LocalAV:L

Attack Complexity

LowAC:L

Privileges Required

HighPR:H

User Interaction

NoneUI:N

Scope

Scope

UnchangedS:U

Impact

Confidentiality

NoneC:N

Integrity

NoneI:N

Availability

HighA:H

4.4/CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness Type (CWE)

Memory Safety

NULL Pointer Dereference

Ecosystems

Timeline

PublishedAug 26, 2022

ModifiedAug 2, 2024

CVE-2022-0168 | Mondoo Vulnerability Intelligence