CVE-2022-1012: Linux Kernel

High severity, CVSS 8.2. EPSS: 4.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A memory leak problem was found in the TCP source port generation algorithm in net/ipv4/tcp.c due to the small table perturb size. This flaw may allow an attacker to information leak and may cause a denial of service problem.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: before 5.18 (fixed in 5.18); version 5.18 only

Published 2022-08-05. Last modified 2026-06-17.