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CVE-2022-2978

A flaw use after free in the Linux kernel NILFS file system was found in the way user triggers function security_inode_alloc to fail with following call to fun…

Impact

A flaw use after free in the Linux kernel NILFS file system was found in the way user triggers function security_inode_alloc to fail with following call to function nilfs_mdt_destroy. A local user could use this flaw to crash the system or potentially escalate their privileges on the system.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
LinuxLinux Kernel
from 2.6.12 before 4.9.331
from 4.10 before 4.14.296
from 4.15 before 4.19.262
from 4.20 before 5.4.218
from 5.5 before 5.10.148
from 5.11 before 5.15.73
DebianDebian Linux
Version 10.0

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