CVE-2022-2318 Use after free in Kernel

What is CVE-2022-2318?

CVE-2022-2318 is a medium-severity use after free vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 6 Jul 2022. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

There are use-after-free vulnerabilities caused by timer handler in net/rose/rose_timer.c of linux that allow attackers to crash linux kernel without any privileges.

Weakness: CWE-416

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-2318?

It affects 7 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Linux kernel, Netapp H300s Firmware, Netapp H410c Firmware, Netapp H410s Firmware, Netapp H500s Firmware and 1 more.

How do I fix CVE-2022-2318?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade to the fixed version. These bugs are found with fuzzing and sanitisers and avoided by memory-safe languages. More about Use after free.

Is CVE-2022-2318 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-2318 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as AZL-10106, DEBIAN-CVE-2022-2318, GHSA-qxhq-w389-3vq5, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-2318.