Description
A use-after-free vulnerabilitity was discovered in drivers/net/hamradio/6pack.c of linux that allows an attacker to crash linux kernel by simulating ax25 device using 6pack driver from user space.
References (4)
Core 4
Core References
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2070689
Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/04/02/3
Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/efe4186e6a1b54bf38b9e05450d43b0da1fd7739
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-1198
Scores
CVSS v3
5.5
EPSS
0.0013
EPSS Percentile
32.5%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-416
Status
published
Products (3)
linux/linux_kernel
5.17 rc1 (5 CPE variants)
linux/linux_kernel
< 5.17
redhat/enterprise_linux
9.0
Published
Aug 29, 2022
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026