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CVE-2022-36946

Public on 2022-07-27
Modified on 2022-12-07
Description

A memory corruption flaw was found in the Linux kernel's Netfilter subsystem in the way a local user uses the libnetfilter_queue when analyzing a corrupted network packet. This flaw allows a local user to crash the system or a remote user to crash the system when the libnetfilter_queue is used by a local user.

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
6.2
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 kernel 2022-09-30 02:41 ALAS-2022-1636
Amazon Linux 2 - Core kernel 2022-09-01 21:09 ALAS2-2022-1838
Amazon Linux 2 - Core kernel 2022-09-30 07:04 ALAS2-2022-1852
Amazon Linux 2 - Kernel-5.10 Extra kernel 2022-08-15 21:23 ALAS2KERNEL-5.10-2022-019
Amazon Linux 2 - Kernel-5.15 Extra kernel 2022-09-08 22:14 ALAS2KERNEL-5.15-2022-007
Amazon Linux 2 - Kernel-5.4 Extra kernel 2022-08-15 21:23 ALAS2KERNEL-5.4-2022-034
Amazon Linux 2023 kernel 2023-02-17 20:46 ALAS2023-2023-070

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 6.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD CVSSv3 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H