Advisories » MGASA-2022-0026

Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 21 Jan 2022
Modification date: 17 Feb 2022
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 8
CVE: CVE-2022-0185

Description

This kernel update is based on upstream 5.15.16 and fixes at least the
following security issue:

William Liu and Jamie Hill-Daniel discovered that the file system context
functionality in the Linux kernel contained an integer underflow
vulnerability, leading to an out-of-bounds write. A local attacker could
use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or execute arbitrary
code (CVE-2022-0185).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29916
• https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.15.16
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-0185

SRPMS

8/core

• kernel-5.15.16-1.mga8
• kmod-virtualbox-6.1.30-1.14.mga8
• kmod-xtables-addons-3.18-1.48.mga8