CVE-2022-1012 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime in Kernel
Severity
8.2HIGHNVD
OSV6.7OSV5.5OSV4.3
EPSS
0.3%
top 46.18%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedAug 5
Latest updateJul 13
Description
A memory leak problem was found in the TCP source port generation algorithm in net/ipv4/tcp.c due to the small table perturb size. This flaw may allow an attacker to information leak and may cause a denial of service problem.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 4.2