CVE-2022-3524: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is the function ipv6_renew_options of the component IPv6 Handler. The manipulation leads to memory leak. The attack can be launched remotely. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The identifier VDB-211021 was assigned to this vulnerability.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 10.0 only
• Linux Linux Kernel: before 2.6.12 (fixed in 2.6.12); version 2.6.12 only

Published 2022-10-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.