CVE-2022-1198

high

Published — · Modified —

CVSS v3

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CVSS v2

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VIR risk

8.0

Description

A use-after-free vulnerabilitity was discovered in drivers/net/hamradio/6pack.c of linux that allows an attacker to crash linux kernel by simulating ax25 device using 6pack driver from user space.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-1198

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-1198.html

OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
arch		fixed	`5.17.5.hardened1-1`
sles		affected
debian	bookworm	fixed	`5.16.18-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`5.10.113-1`
debian	forky	fixed	`5.16.18-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`5.16.18-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`5.16.18-1`

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-1198.html
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-1198

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.