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CVE-2022-3028
- Severity: high (CVSS 7.0 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2022-08-31 · updated 2026-10-14
- Weakness: CWE-667
Description
A race condition was found in the Linux kernel's IP framework for transforming packets (XFRM subsystem) when multiple calls to xfrm_probe_algs occurred simultaneously. This flaw could allow a local attacker to potentially trigger an out-of-bounds write or leak kernel heap memory by performing an out-of-bounds read and copying it into a socket.
Affected products
- Debian Linux: 10.0
- Fedoraproject Fedora: 35, 36, 37
- Linux kernel: from 3.14 before 4.9.327; from 4.10 before 4.14.292; from 4.15 before 4.19.257; from 4.20 before 5.4.212; from 5.5 before 5.10.140; from 5.11 before 5.15.64 — fixed in 4.14.292, 4.19.257, 4.9.327, 5.10.140, 5.15.64, 5.19.6
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 4.14.292, 4.19.257, 4.9.327, 5.10.140. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/ba953a9d89a00c078b85f4b190bc1dde66fe16b5
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/10/msg00000.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/11/msg00001.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/F3MYP7WX4PNE6RCITVXA43CECBZT4CL6/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JKVA75UHKVOHNOEPCLUHTFGWCOOUBDM3/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PEQYVCNYUWB4CJ2YRAYNF2GGFQ7SUYC4/
- https://lore.kernel.org/all/YtoWqEkKzvimzWS5%40gondor.apana.org.au/T/
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230214-0004/
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/ba953a9d89a00c078b85f4b190bc1dde66fe16b5
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/10/msg00000.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/11/msg00001.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/F3MYP7WX4PNE6RCITVXA43CECBZT4CL6/
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