CVE-2022-1012CWE-401

CVE-2022-1012

High · published August 5, 2022

CVSS v3.1
8.2
EPSS
4%
Percentile
91.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

A memory leak problem was found in the TCP source port generation algorithm in net/ipv4/tcp.c due to the small table perturb size. This flaw may allow an attacker to information leak and may cause a denial of service problem.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
8.2 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.04325 · 91.1th percentile
Weakness
CWE-401 · Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime
Published
2022-08-05T20:15Z
Affected products (7)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel< 5.185.18
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References (8)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 05 AUG 00:00Z
    A memory leak problem was found in the TCP source port generation algorithm in net/ipv4/tcp.c due to the small table perturb size
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