Security Advisory

CVE-2022-0185

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2022-02-11 17:40:57
Last updated 2025-10-21 23:15:46
Assigner redhat
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way the legacy_parse_param function in the Filesystem Context functionality of the Linux kernel verified the supplied parameters length. An unprivileged (in case of unprivileged user namespaces enabled, otherwise needs namespaced CAP_SYS_ADMIN privilege) local user able to open a filesystem that does not support the Filesystem Context API (and thus fallbacks to legacy handling) could use this flaw to escalate their privileges on the system.