CVE•Published 2022-08-05•Modified 2026-10-14•1 article on news•6 live references•NVD data

CVE-2022-1012Linux · Linux_kernel

Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)

CVSS v3.1
8.2
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
EPSS percentile
91
Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 9% of all CVEs
Description

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.

Timeline
Published 2022-08-05
Modified 2026-10-14

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