6.6 CVE-2021-22600 (CWE-415)

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:H

CVE ID Exploitable Vendor Product Vulnerability Date added
CVE-2021-22600 True Linux Kernel Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation Vulnerability 2022-04-11 00:00:00

Description

EUVD-2021-9736: Linux Kernel contains a flaw in the packet socket (AF_PACKET) implementation which could lead to incorrectly freeing memory. A local user could exploit this for denial-of-service (DoS) or possibly for privilege escalation.


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