Security Advisory

CVE-2022-1729

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2022-09-01 00:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-03 00:16:58
Assigner redhat
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

A race condition was found the Linux kernel in perf_event_open() which can be exploited by an unprivileged user to gain root privileges. The bug allows to build several exploit primitives such as kernel address information leak, arbitrary execution, etc.