CVE-2022-0742

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    CVE-2022-0742

    Published: 18 Mar 2022Last Modified: 21 Oct 2026

    Summary: Memory leak in ICMP6 in Linux Kernel

    Details: Memory leak in icmp6 implementation in Linux Kernel 5.13+ allows a remote attacker to DoS a host by making it go out-of-memory via icmp6 packets of type 130 or 131. We recommend upgrading past commit 2d3916f3189172d5c69d33065c3c21119fe539fc.

    References: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=2d3916f3189172d5c69d33065c3c21119fe539fc, https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/03/15/3, https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/0xxx/CVE-2022-0742.json, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-0742, https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220425-0001/

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2d3916f3189172d5c69d33065c3c21119fe539fc

    Affected versions

    v5.17-rc4

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
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    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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