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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD9.1 Critical

CVE-2022-0742

Memory leak in ICMP6 in Linux Kernel

Description

Memory leak in icmp6 implementation in Linux Kernel 5.13+ allows a remote attacker to DoS a host by making it go out-of-memory via icmp6 packets of type 130 or 131. We recommend upgrading past commit 2d3916f3189172d5c69d33065c3c21119fe539fc.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Linux Kernel

  • unspecified to ≤ 5.13affected

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