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CVE-2022-0742

CRITICAL
Published 2022-03-18T11:20:11.000Z
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CVSS Score

V3.1
9.1
/10
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
Base Score Metrics
Exploitability: N/A Impact: N/A

EPSS Score

v2023.03.01
0.004
probability
of exploitation in the wild

There is a 0.4% chance that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.

Updated: 2025-01-25
Exploit Probability
Percentile: 0.737
Higher than 73.7% of all CVEs

Attack Vector Metrics

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED

Impact Metrics

Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH

Description

Memory leak in icmp6 implementation in Linux Kernel 5.13+ allows a remote attacker to DoS a host by making it go out-of-memory via icmp6 packets of type 130 or 131. We recommend upgrading past commit 2d3916f3189172d5c69d33065c3c21119fe539fc.

Available Exploits

No exploits available for this CVE.

Related News

No news articles found for this CVE.

Affected Products

Linux

Kernel

Affected Versions:

unspecified

GitHub Security Advisories

Community-driven vulnerability intelligence from GitHub

⚠ Unreviewed HIGH

GHSA-c2j9-m677-3m66

Advisory Details

Memory leak in icmp6 implementation in Linux Kernel 5.13+ allows a remote attacker to DoS a host by making it go out-of-memory via icmp6 packets of type 130 or 131. We recommend upgrading past commit 2d3916f3189172d5c69d33065c3c21119fe539fc.

CVSS Scoring

CVSS Score

7.5

CVSS Vector

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

References

ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-0742
WEB https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=2d3916f3189172d5c69d33065c3c21119fe539fc
WEB https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220425-0001
WEB https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/03/15/3

Advisory provided by GitHub Security Advisory Database. Published: March 19, 2022, Modified: March 26, 2022

References

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/03/15/3
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=2d3916f3189172d5c69d33065c3c21119fe539fc
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220425-0001/
Published: 2022-03-18T11:20:11.000Z
Last Modified: 2025-04-21T13:55:10.245Z
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