CVE-2022-0847 and UIM/DXIM/Nimsoft
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Issue/Introduction
The following vulnerability was announced: CVE-2022-0847
A flaw was found in the way the "flags" member of the new pipe buffer structure was lacking proper initialization in copy_page_to_iter_pipe and push_pipe functions in the Linux kernel and could thus contain stale values. An unprivileged local user could use this flaw to write to pages in the page cache backed by read only files and as such escalate their privileges on the system.
Is UIM/DXIM/Nimsoft affected by this vulnerability?
Environment
Linux OS
Resolution
UIM/DXIM/Nimsoft is not impacted directly by this vulnerability. The vulnerability is on Linux at the Operating System level and does not depend on or impact specific applications; security teams and system admins should reach out to their Linux distribution provider for information on this vulnerability and how to mitigate it.
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