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CVE-2022-27666
HIGH · CVSS 7.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2022-03-23T06:15:06.717 · Last modified 2026-06-17T04:37:27.123

Summary

A heap buffer overflow flaw was found in IPsec ESP transformation code in net/ipv4/esp4.c and net/ipv6/esp6.c. This flaw allows a local attacker with a normal user privilege to overwrite kernel heap objects and may cause a local privilege escalation threat.

Affected products

linux — linux_kernel

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