CVE-2022-1198

A use-after-free vulnerabilitity was discovered in drivers/net/hamradio/6pack.c of linux that allows an attacker to crash linux kernel by simulating ax25 device using 6pack driver from user space.

Database specific

{
    "cna_assigner": "redhat",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-416"
    ],
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/1xxx/CVE-2022-1198.json"
}

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/torvalds/linux

Affected ranges

Type

GIT

Repo

https://github.com/torvalds/linux

Events

Introduced

7e57714cd0ad2d5bb90e50b5096a0e671dec1ef3

Fixed

efe4186e6a1b54bf38b9e05450d43b0da1fd7739

Database specific

Show details

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    "extracted_events": [
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            "range": [
                {
                    "introduced": "Fixed in kernel v5.17-rc6"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "Fixed in kernel v5.17-rc6"
                }
            ],
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            "strategy": "StandaloneSingleVersion"
        },
        {
            "range": [
                {
                    "fixed": "efe4186e6a1b54bf38b9e05450d43b0da1fd7739"
                }
            ],
            "source": "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

Fixed in kernel v5.*

Fixed in kernel v5.17-rc6

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-1198.json"

vanir_signatures

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vanir_signatures_modified

"2026-10-16T08:58:14Z"