CVE-2022-0847

high

Description

A flaw was found in the way the "flags" member of the new pipe buffer structure was lacking proper initialization in copy_page_to_iter_pipe and push_pipe functions in the Linux kernel and could thus contain stale values. An unprivileged local user could use this flaw to write to pages in the page cache backed by read only files and as such escalate their privileges on the system.

References

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/privilege-elevation-exploits-used-in-over-50-percent-of-insider-attacks/

https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc/?id=000020603

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220325-0005/

https://psirt.global.sonicwall.com/vuln-detail/SNWLID-2022-0015

https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-222547.pdf

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2060795

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/176534/Linux-4.20-KTLS-Read-Only-Write.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2022-03-10

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.2

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

Severity: High

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