CVE-2022-0742: Linux Kernel

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Memory leak in icmp6 implementation in Linux Kernel 5.13+ allows a remote attacker to DoS a host by making it go out-of-memory via icmp6 packets of type 130 or 131. We recommend upgrading past commit 2d3916f3189172d5c69d33065c3c21119fe539fc.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 5.13, before 5.15.27 (fixed in 5.15.27); from 5.16, before 5.16.13 (fixed in 5.16.13); version 5.17 only
• Netapp a400 Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp Aff 8300 Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp Aff 8700 Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp Fas 8300 Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp Fas 8700 Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp h300e Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp h300s Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp h410c Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp h410s Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp h500e Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp h500s Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp h700e Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp h700s Firmware: affected versions not specified

Published 2022-03-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.