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CVE-2022-0492

Published: Mar 3, 2022

Modified: Jun 3, 2026

PUBLISHED

Description

A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel’s cgroup_release_agent_write in the kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c function. This flaw, under certain circumstances, allows the use of the cgroups v1 release_agent feature to escalate privileges and bypass the namespace isolation unexpectedly.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	kernel	affected `kernel 5.17 rc3`

Weaknesses (CWE)

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2051505

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=24f6008564183aa120d07c03d9289519c2fe02af

[debian-lts-announce] 20220309 [SECURITY] [DLA 2940-1] linux security update

mailing-list

[debian-lts-announce] 20220309 [SECURITY] [DLA 2941-1] linux-4.19 security update

mailing-list

vendor-advisory

vendor-advisory

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/166444/Kernel-Live-Patch-Security-Notice-LSN-0085-1.html

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220419-0002/

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/167386/Kernel-Live-Patch-Security-Notice-LSN-0086-1.html

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/176099/Docker-cgroups-Container-Escape.html

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