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kernel CVE-2022-40307

Moderate
rpkelly published GHSA-vqwx-xh77-jjj9 Jan 27, 2023

Package

kernel-5.10 (bottlerocket)

Affected versions

< 1.12.0

Patched versions

1.12.0
kernel-5.15 (bottlerocket)
< 1.12.0
1.12.0

Description

A race condition in the Linux kernel's EFI capsule loader driver was found in the way it handled write and flush operations on the device node of the EFI capsule. A local user could potentially use this flaw to crash the system.

Severity

Moderate

CVE ID

CVE-2022-40307

Weaknesses

No CWEs