Memory Leak in ICMP6 Implementation in Linux Kernel 5.13+: Remote DoS via ICMP6 Packets

Memory Leak in ICMP6 Implementation in Linux Kernel 5.13+: Remote DoS via ICMP6 Packets

CVE-2022-0742 · HIGH Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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.

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