CVE-2022-0322 Denial of service in kernel

Medium 5.5 Published Updated

A local user can trigger a kernel crash in the SCTP protocol implementation, causing a denial of service.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Any signed-in user
Attackable
Local or same network only
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
Available

What is CVE-2022-0322?

CVE-2022-0322 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 25 Mar 2022. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A flaw was found in the sctp_make_strreset_req function in net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c in the SCTP network protocol in the Linux kernel with a local user privilege access. In this flaw, an attempt to use more buffer than is allocated triggers a BUG_ON issue, leading to a denial of service (DOS).

Weakness: CWE-704, CWE-681

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-0322?

It affects 5 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Linux kernel, Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core Binding Support Function, Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core Network Exposure Function, Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core Policy.

How do I fix CVE-2022-0322?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2022-0322 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-0322 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2022-0322, GHSA-g6mc-765r-fwwj, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-0322.

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