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CVE-2022-0742

Memory leak in ICMP6 in Linux Kernel

Published: 3/18/2022 Last updated: 4/21/2025 Reserved: 2/23/2022

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.

CNA assigner: Google (14ed7db2-1595-443d-9d34-6215bf890778) Requested by: n/a

Metrics

Version Score Severity Vector String
3.1 9.1 Critical CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Opam packages affected (27)

albatross cdrom conf-bpftool conf-libbpf conf-linux-libc-dev core core_unix hvsock mirage-block-unix mm ocaml-probes orun rawlink rawlink-eio rawlink-lwt shell solo5 solo5-bindings-hvt solo5-bindings-spt solo5-cross-aarch64 solo5-kernel-ukvm tracy-client tuntap uring vhd-format vhd-format-lwt xapi-stdext-unix

Products affected (1)

Product Vendor Version
Kernel Linux n/a

References (6)