CVE-2022-1015 Memory corruption in kernel

What is CVE-2022-1015?

CVE-2022-1015 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 29 Apr 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 Linux kernel in linux/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c of the netfilter subsystem. This flaw allows a local user to cause an out-of-bounds write issue.

Weakness: CWE-787

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-1015?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2022-1015?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2022-1015 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-1015 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Public exploit code: 8 proofs of concept on GitHub.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
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Also known as AZL-9643, DEBIAN-CVE-2022-1015, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-1015.