UBUNTU-CVE-2022-0742

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2022-0742

    Published: 14 Mar 2022Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2022-0742
    Aliases:
    USN-5337-1
    USN-5346-1
    USN-5362-1

    Summary:

    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://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-0742, https://git.kernel.org/linus/2d3916f3189172d5c69d33065c3c21119fe539fc, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5337-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5346-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5362-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5368-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-0742

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: linux-hwe-edge

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]~16.04.1?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    4.8.0-28.30~16.04.1
    4.8.0-30.32~16.04.1
    4.8.0-32.34~16.04.1
    4.8.0-34.36~16.04.1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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