Quotidien Hebdomadaire Mensuel

Quotidien Shaarli

Tous les liens d'un jour sur une page.

July 21, 2022

[CVE-2022-34918] A crack in the Linux firewall

In our previous article Yet another bug into Netfilter, I presented a vulnerability found within the netfilter subsystem of the Linux kernel. During my investigation, I found a weird comparison that does not fully protect a copy within a buffer. It led to a heap buffer overflow that was exploited to obtain root privileges on Ubuntu 22.04.