CVE-2022-0742
Critical
Memory leak in ICMP6 in Linux Kernel
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.
Exploit probability
5.0%
Published
March 18, 2022
Required by
Not available
Last source change
August 12, 2026
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
685 explicit affected versions
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
Open Source Vulnerabilities
CVE-2022-0742
View original source
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.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=2d3916f3189172d5c69d33065c3c21119fe539fc
- https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/0xxx/CVE-2022-0742.json
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-0742
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220425-0001/
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/03/15/3