CVE-2022-42895 (GCVE-0-2022-42895)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-11-23 14:11 – Updated: 2025-04-21 13:46
VLAI
Title
Info Leak in l2cap_core in the Linux Kernel
Summary
There is an infoleak vulnerability in the Linux kernel's net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c's l2cap_parse_conf_req function which can be used to leak kernel pointers remotely. We recommend upgrading past commit  https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/b1a2cd50c0357f243b7435a732b4e62ba3157a2e https://www.google.com/url
Severity
5.1 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-824 - Access of Uninitialized Pointer
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Kernel Affected: 3.0.0 , ≤ b1a2cd50c0357f243b7435a732b4e62ba3157a2e (custom)
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Date Public
2022-11-02 23:00
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