CVE-2022-27666

high

Description

A heap buffer overflow flaw was found in IPsec ESP transformation code in net/ipv4/esp4.c and net/ipv6/esp6.c. This flaw allows a local attacker with a normal user privilege to overwrite kernel heap objects and may cause a local privilege escalation threat.

References

https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5173

https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5127

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220429-0001/

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/ebe48d368e97d007bfeb76fcb065d6cfc4c96645

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2061633

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2022-03-23

Updated: 2023-02-01

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High