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CVE-2022-0742
CRITICAL · CVSS 9.1
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2022-03-18T12:15:07.860 · Last modified 2026-06-17T04:21:09.860

Summary

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

linux — linux_kernel

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References

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