CVE-2022-0168

Summary

CVECVE-2022-0168
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-08-26 18:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-02-12 22:15:00 UTC
DescriptionA 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-476

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel All All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 9.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
2037386 – (CVE-2022-0168) CVE-2022-0168 kernel: smb2_ioctl_query_info NULL Pointer Dereference MISC bugzilla.redhat.com
kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git - Linux kernel source tree MISC git.kernel.org
Red Hat Customer Portal - Access to 24x7 support and knowledge MISC access.redhat.com
Red Hat Customer Portal - Access to 24x7 support and knowledge MISC access.redhat.com
Red Hat Customer Portal - Access to 24x7 support and knowledge MISC access.redhat.com
Red Hat Customer Portal - Access to 24x7 support and knowledge MISC access.redhat.com
Red Hat Customer Portal - Access to 24x7 support and knowledge MISC access.redhat.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 160210 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for kernel (ELSA-2022-7683)
  • 160270 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for kernel (ELSA-2022-8267)
  • 179258 Debian Security Update for linux (DSA 5127-1)
  • 181998 Debian Security Update for linux (CVE-2022-0168)
  • 198822 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel Vulnerabilities (USN-5469-1)
  • 199650 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel Vulnerabilities (USN-6284-1)
  • 199669 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel Vulnerabilities (USN-6301-1)
  • 240815 Red Hat Update for kernel-rt (RHSA-2022:7444)
  • 240817 Red Hat Update for kernel security (RHSA-2022:7683)
  • 240869 Red Hat Update for kernel-rt (RHSA-2022:7933)
  • 240904 Red Hat Update for kernel security (RHSA-2022:8267)
  • 242890 Red Hat Update for kernel (RHSA-2024:0724)
  • 355563 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel : ALAS2KERNEL-5.10-2023-036
  • 376925 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for cloud-kernel (ALINUX3-SA-2022:0125)
  • 6140135 AWS Bottlerocket Security Update for kernel (GHSA-j42p-7p5m-6qwp)
  • 752228 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2022:2078-1)
  • 752242 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2022:2104-1)
  • 753296 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2022:2177-1)
  • 753368 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2022:2079-1)
  • 903710 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (10775) (DEPRECATED)
  • 903861 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (10758)
  • 903989 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (10775-1)
  • 904143 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (10758-1)
  • 906108 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (10775-2)
  • 906245 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (10758-2)
  • 940732 AlmaLinux Security Update for kernel (ALSA-2022:7683)
  • 940766 AlmaLinux Security Update for kernel-rt (ALSA-2022:7444)
  • 940798 AlmaLinux Security Update for kernel (ALSA-2022:8267)
  • 940843 AlmaLinux Security Update for kernel-rt (ALSA-2022:7933)
  • 960176 Rocky Linux Security Update for kernel-rt (RLSA-2022:7444)
  • 960184 Rocky Linux Security Update for kernel (RLSA-2022:7683)
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