CVE-2022-1198

5.5 mediumEPSS 0.4%

Medium (5.5). EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A use-after-free vulnerabilitity was discovered in drivers/net/hamradio/6pack.c of linux that allows an attacker to crash linux kernel by simulating ax25 device using 6pack driver from user space.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

5.5 medium

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

EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 37% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-416
Published: 2022-08-29
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

linux:linux_kernel
redhat:enterprise_linux

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-1198
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2070689
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/efe4186e6a1b54bf38b9e05450d43b0da1fd7739
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/04/02/3
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-1198

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