{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2022-01-27T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: fanotify misuses fd_install() which could lead to use-after-free",
    "id" : "2052312",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2052312"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "6.4",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-416",
  "details" : [ "A use after free in the Linux kernel File System notify functionality was found in the way user triggers copy_info_records_to_user() call to fail in copy_event_to_user(). A local user could use this flaw to crash the system or potentially escalate their privileges on the system.", "A use-after-free flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s File System notify functionality in the way a user triggers the copy_info_records_to_user() function call to fail in copy_event_to_user(). This flaw allows a local user to crash or potentially escalate their privileges on the system." ],
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "release_date" : "2022-11-15T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2022:8267",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9",
    "package" : "kernel-0:5.14.0-162.6.1.el9_1"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "release_date" : "2022-11-15T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2022:7933",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::nfv",
    "package" : "kernel-rt-0:5.14.0-162.6.1.rt21.168.el9_1"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "release_date" : "2022-11-15T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2022:8267",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9",
    "package" : "kernel-0:5.14.0-162.6.1.el9_1"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-1998\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-1998\nhttps://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c?h=v5.17&id=ee12595147ac1fbfb5bcb23837e26dd58d94b15d\nhttps://seclists.org/oss-sec/2022/q1/99" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2022-1998",
  "csaw" : false
}