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Debian: CVE-2022-0492: linux -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2022-0492: linux -- security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
03/03/2022
Created
03/11/2022
Added
03/10/2022
Modified
10/21/2022

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.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-linux

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