CVE-2022-0492

A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel’s cgroup_release_agent_write in the kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c function. This flaw, under certain circumstances, allows the use of the cgroups v1 release_agent feature to escalate privileges and bypass the namespace isolation unexpectedly.

Database specific

{
    "cna_assigner":  "redhat",
    "cwe_ids":  [
        "CWE-287"
    ],
    "osv_generated_from":  "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/0xxx/CVE-2022-0492.json"
}

References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type

GIT

Repo

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git

Events

Introduced

dfd42facf1e4ada021b939b4e19c935dcdd55566

Fixed

24f6008564183aa120d07c03d9289519c2fe02af

Database specific

Show details

{
    "extracted_events":  [
        {
            "range":  [
                {
                    "introduced":  "kernel 5.17 rc3"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "kernel 5.17 rc3"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "AFFECTED_FIELD",
            "strategy":  "StandaloneSingleVersion"
        },
        {
            "range":  [
                {
                    "fixed":  "24f6008564183aa120d07c03d9289519c2fe02af"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

kernel 5.*

kernel 5.17 rc3

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-0492.json"