Vulnerability CVE-2022-1976


Published: 2022-08-31

Description:
A flaw was found in the Linux kernel??s implementation of IO-URING. This flaw allows an attacker with local executable permission to create a string of requests that can cause a use-after-free flaw within the kernel. This issue leads to memory corruption and possible privilege escalation.

 References:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=9cae36a094e7e9d6e5fe8b6dcd4642138b3eb0c7

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