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Use After Free

CVE-2022-0615

Severity Medium
Score 5.9/10

Summary

Use-after-free in eset_rtp kernel module used in ESET products for Linux allows potential attacker to trigger denial-of-service condition on the system.

  • HIGH
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-416 - Use After Free

Use-after-free (UaF) vulnerability occurs when the application is using a pointer to memory that has been freed. Any attempt to read/write to a buffer after it is de-allocated allows memory corruption, sensitive information exposure, and can potentially lead to arbitrary code execution.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published