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CVE-2022-36879

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2022-07-27 · updated 2026-10-14

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.18.14. xfrm_expand_policies in net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c can cause a refcount to be dropped twice.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 10.0, 11.0
• Linux kernel: through 5.18.14
• NetApp A700S Firmware: all versions
• Active IQ Unified Manager for VMware vSphere, Linux, and Microsoft Windows: all versions
• NetApp Aff 500F Firmware: all versions
• NetApp Aff 8300 Firmware: all versions
• NetApp Aff 8700 Firmware: all versions
• NetApp Aff A250 Firmware: all versions
• NetApp Aff A400 Firmware: all versions
• E-Series SANtricity OS Controller Software 11.x: from 11.0 through 11.50.2
• NetApp Fas 500F Firmware: all versions
• NetApp Fas 8300 Firmware: all versions
• NetApp Fas 8700 Firmware: all versions
• NetApp Fas A250 Firmware: all versions
• NetApp Fas A400 Firmware: all versions
• NetApp H300S Firmware: all versions
• NetApp H410C Firmware: all versions
• NetApp H410S Firmware: all versions
• NetApp H500S Firmware: all versions
• NetApp H610C Firmware: all versions
• NetApp H610S Firmware: all versions
• NetApp H615C Firmware: all versions
• NetApp H700S Firmware: all versions
• NetApp Hci Bootstrap Os: all versions

References

• https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit?id=f85daf0e725358be78dfd208dea5fd665d8cb901
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/f85daf0e725358be78dfd208dea5fd665d8cb901
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00011.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/10/msg00000.html
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220901-0007/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5207
• https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit?id=f85daf0e725358be78dfd208dea5fd665d8cb901
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/f85daf0e725358be78dfd208dea5fd665d8cb901
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00011.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/10/msg00000.html
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220901-0007/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5207

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