CVE-2022-4269 (GCVE-0-2022-4269)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-12-05 00:00 – Updated: 2025-04-14 18:10
VLAI
Summary
A flaw was found in the Linux kernel Traffic Control (TC) subsystem. Using a specific networking configuration (redirecting egress packets to ingress using TC action "mirred") a local unprivileged user could trigger a CPU soft lockup (ABBA deadlock) when the transport protocol in use (TCP or SCTP) does a retransmission, resulting in a denial of service condition.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a Linux kernel (TC subsystem) Affected: Since upstream commit 53592b3 (v4.10-rc1)
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