CVE-2022-24448 Information disclosure in n/a

What is CVE-2022-24448?

CVE-2022-24448 is a low-severity vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 4 Feb 2022. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

An issue was discovered in fs/nfs/dir.c in the Linux kernel before 5.16.5. If an application sets the O_DIRECTORY flag, and tries to open a regular file, nfs_atomic_open() performs a regular lookup. If a regular file is found, ENOTDIR should occur, but the server instead returns uninitialized data in the file descriptor.

Weakness: CWE-908, CWE-755

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-24448?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2022-24448?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2022-24448 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-24448 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as AZL-8483, DEBIAN-CVE-2022-24448, GHSA-pg3v-wrvf-hgf7, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-24448.