CVE-2022-40476 (GCVE-0-2022-40476)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-09-14 20:06
Modified
2024-08-03 12:21
Severity ?
Summary
A null pointer dereference issue was discovered in fs/io_uring.c in the Linux kernel before 5.15.62. A local user could use this flaw to crash the system or potentially cause a denial of service.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/fs/io_uring.c?h=v5.15.61&id=3746d62ecf1c872a520c4866118edccb121c44fdPatch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAO4S-mdVW5GkODk0+vbQexNAAJZopwzFJ9ACvRCJ989fQ4A6Ow%40mail.gmail.com/
cve@mitre.orghttps://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.15.62Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/fs/io_uring.c?h=v5.15.61&id=3746d62ecf1c872a520c4866118edccb121c44fdPatch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAO4S-mdVW5GkODk0+vbQexNAAJZopwzFJ9ACvRCJ989fQ4A6Ow%40mail.gmail.com/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.15.62Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
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