Vulnerability CVE-2022-0492


Published: 2022-03-03

Description:
A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel??s cgroup_release_agent_write in the kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c function. This flaw, under certain circumstances, allows the use of the cgroups v1 release_agent feature to escalate privileges and bypass the namespace isolation unexpectedly.

 References:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=24f6008564183aa120d07c03d9289519c2fe02af
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2051505

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