Red Hat: CVE-2022-22942: CVE-2022-22942 kernel: failing usercopy allows for use-after-free exploitation (Multiple Advisories)
4
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
02/22/2022
02/24/2022
02/23/2022
03/13/2024
Description
The vmwgfx driver contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability that allows unprivileged users to gain access to files opened by other processes on the system through a dangling 'file' pointer.
Solution(s)
- redhat-upgrade-kernel
- redhat-upgrade-kernel-rt
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