Severity
5.5
Medium severity
Details
- CVSS score
- 5.5
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- CWE ID
Overview
About vulnerability
A flaw was found in the Linux Kernel. The tun/tap sockets have their socket UID hardcoded to 0 due to a type confusion in their initialization function. While it will be often correct, as tuntap devices require CAP_NET_ADMIN, it may not always be the case, e.g., a non-root user only having that capability. This would make tun/tap sockets being incorrectly treated in filtering/routing decisions, possibly bypassing network filters.Details
- Affected product:
- AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , Amazon Linux 2 ELS , CentOS 6 ELS , CentOS 7 ELS , CentOS 8.4 ELS , CentOS 8.5 ELS , CentOS Stream 8 ELS , CloudLinux 6 ELS , CloudLinux 7 ELS , Debian 10 ELS , Oracle Linux 6 ELS , Oracle Linux 7 ELS , RHEL 7 ELS , TuxCare 9.6 ESU , Ubuntu 16.04 ELS , Ubuntu 18.04 ELS , Ubuntu 20.04 ELS
- Affected packages:
- kernel @ 5.14.0 (+18 more)
Fixes
KernelCare state
Live-patch status from KernelCare for each operating system.
| Operating system | Status | Covered kernels |
|---|---|---|
| AlmaLinux 9 | Released |
14 kernels
|
| Debian 11 | Planned | — |
| Oracle Linux 9 | Released |
16 kernels
|
| Proxmox VE 7 5.15 | Released |
28 kernels
|
| RHEL 9 | Released |
15 kernels
|
| Rocky Linux 9 | Released |
12 kernels
|
| Ubuntu 18.04 AWS Focal | Will Not Fix | — |
| Ubuntu 18.04 Azure Focal | Ready For Release | — |
| Ubuntu 20.04 | Ready For Release | — |
| Ubuntu 20.04 AWS | Ready For Release | — |
| Ubuntu 20.04 Azure | Ready For Release | — |
| Ubuntu 20.04 GCP | Ready For Release | — |
| Ubuntu 20.04 HWE AWS | Released |
19 kernels
|
| Ubuntu 20.04 HWE Azure | Released |
12 kernels
|
| Ubuntu 22.04 | Released |
30 kernels
|
| Ubuntu 22.04 AWS | Released |
26 kernels
|
| Ubuntu 22.04 Azure | Released |
22 kernels
|