Sleep-in-Atomic Bug in /net/nfc/netlink.c: Exploiting NFC Device Simulation to Crash Linux Kernel

Sleep-in-Atomic Bug in /net/nfc/netlink.c: Exploiting NFC Device Simulation to Crash Linux Kernel

CVE-2022-1975 · MEDIUM Severity

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

There is a sleep-in-atomic bug in /net/nfc/netlink.c that allows an attacker to crash the Linux kernel by simulating a nfc device from user-space.

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