There exists a use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel through io_uring and the IORING_OP_SPLICE operation. If IORING_OP_SPLICE is missing the IO_WQ_WORK_FILES flag, which signals that the operation won't use current->nsproxy, so its reference counter is not increased. This assumption is not always true as calling io_splice on specific files will call the get_uts function which will use current->nsproxy leading to invalidly decreasing its reference counter later causing the use-after-free vulnerability. We recommend upgrading to version 5.10.160 or above
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Google

Published: 2023-01-11T12:33:41.024Z

Updated: 2024-08-03T01:48:40.470Z

Reserved: 2022-12-23T13:11:04.948Z

Link: CVE-2022-4696

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T01:48:40.470Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-01-11T13:15:09.307

Modified: 2023-11-07T03:58:36.397

Link: CVE-2022-4696

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2022-12-19T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2022-4696 - Bugzilla