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Critical USN-5346-1 1 CVE

linux-oem-5.14 vulnerability

Published Mar 24, 2022 · Updated Feb 10, 2026

Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Summary

It was discovered that the ICMPv6 implementation in the Linux kernel did
not properly deallocate memory in certain situations. A remote attacker
could possibly use this to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion).

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 20.04 LTS 20.04:LTS linux-oem-5.14 5.14.0-1029.32

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Critical 9.1
    CVE-2022-0742

    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.

    Linux kernel linux-raspi2 linux-hwe Linux Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-0742