CVE-2022-1012

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 49
Modified
Published: 05 Aug 2022, 00:00
Last modified:02 Aug 2024, 23:47

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
33/100
CVSS Score
8.2 HIGH
v3.1 (nvd)
EPSS Score
0.44% LOW
0% probability +0.16%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

05 Aug 2022, 00:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
02 Aug 2024, 23:47
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

A memory leak problem was found in the TCP source port generation algorithm in net/ipv4/tcp.c due to the small table perturb size. This flaw may allow an attacker to information leak and may cause a denial of service problem.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.1HIGHScore: 8.2CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.44% Percentile: 64%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-401Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

    The product does not sufficiently track and release allocated memory after it has been used, making the memory unavailable for reallocation and reuse.

Affected Systems

  • linuxlinux_kernel

    < 5.18 | 5.18 | 5.18:rc1 | 5.18:rc2 | 5.18:rc3 | 5.18:rc4 | 5.18:rc5

References (3)