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Debian: DSA-5128-1 Urgent: Kernel Vulnerability and System Compromise

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Calendar Grey May 2, 2022
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Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leaks

Summary

CVE-2021-4197

Eric Biederman reported that incorrect permission checks in the
cgroup process migration implementation can allow a local attacker
to escalate privileges.

CVE-2022-0168

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the CIFS client
implementation which can allow a local attacker with CAP_SYS_ADMIN
privileges to crash the system. The security impact is negligible as
CAP_SYS_ADMIN inherently gives the ability to deny service.

CVE-2022-1016

David Bouman discovered a flaw in the netfilter subsystem where the
nft_do_chain function did not initialize register data that
nf_tables expressions can read from and write to. A local attacker
can take advantage of this to read sensitive information.

CVE-2022-1048

Hu Jiahui discovered a race condition in the sound subsystem that
can result in a use-after-free. A local user permitted to access a
PCM sound device can take advantage of this flaw to crash the
system or potentially for privilege esc...

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Package: linux
CVE ID: CVE-2021-4197 CVE-2022-0168 CVE-2022-1016 CVE-2022-1048

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