CVE-2022-1198: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: before 5.17 (fixed in 5.17); version 5.17 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 9.0 only

Published 2022-08-29. Last modified 2026-06-17.