Vulnerabilities > CVE-2022-1012 - Memory Leak vulnerability in Linux Kernel

047910
CVSS 8.2 - HIGH
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
LOW
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
HIGH
network
low complexity
linux
CWE-401

Summary

A memory leak problem was found in the TCP source port generation algorithm in net/ipv4/tcp.c due to the small table perturb size. This flaw may allow an attacker to information leak and may cause a denial of service problem.