CVE-2022-32981

Public on 2022-06-10
Modified on 2022-10-25
Description
An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.18.3 on powerpc 32-bit platforms. There is a buffer overflow in ptrace PEEKUSER and POKEUSER (aka PEEKUSR and POKEUSR) when accessing floating point registers.
Severity
Medium severity
Medium
CVSS v3 Base Score
7.4
See breakdown

Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
Amazon Linux 1 kernel 2022-06-30 ALAS-2022-1604 Fixed
Amazon Linux 2 - Core kernel 2022-07-06 ALAS2-2022-1813 Fixed
Amazon Linux 2 - Kernel-5.10 Extra kernel 2022-06-30 ALAS2KERNEL-5.10-2022-015 Fixed
Amazon Linux 2 - Kernel-5.15 Extra kernel 2022-06-30 ALAS2KERNEL-5.15-2022-002 Fixed
Amazon Linux 2 - Kernel-5.4 Extra kernel 2022-06-30 ALAS2KERNEL-5.4-2022-028 Fixed
Amazon Linux 2023 kernel 2023-02-17 ALAS2023-2023-070 Fixed

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 7.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD CVSSv2 4.6 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
NVD CVSSv3 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H