Updated: 2025-08-20 00:12:01.625154
Description:
A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel’s cgroup_release_agent_write in the kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c function. This flaw, under certain circumstances, allows the use of the cgroups v1 release_agent feature to escalate privileges and bypass the namespace isolation unexpectedly.
| Links | NIST | CIRCL | RHEL | Ubuntu |
| Severity | Score | |
|---|---|---|
| CVSS Version 2.x | MEDIUM | 6.9 |
| CVSS Version 3.x | HIGH | 7.8 |
| OS name | Project name | Version | Score | Severity | Status | Errata | Last updated | Statement |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU | kernel | 5.14.0 | 7.8 | HIGH | Already Fixed | 2024-01-20 08:38:00 | ||
| CentOS 6 ELS | kernel | 2.6.32 | 7.8 | HIGH | Released | CLSA-2022:1650986589 | 2022-05-05 12:05:37 | |
| CentOS 7 ELS | kernel | 3.10.0 | 7.8 | HIGH | Not Vulnerable | 2023-11-02 09:35:24 | ||
| CentOS 8.4 ELS | kernel | 4.18.0 | 7.8 | HIGH | Released | CLSA-2023:1686585068 | 2023-06-13 09:13:36 | |
| CentOS 8.5 ELS | kernel | 4.18.0 | 7.8 | HIGH | Released | CLSA-2023:1686651204 | 2023-06-13 09:13:37 | |
| CloudLinux 6 ELS | kernel | 2.6.32 | 7.8 | HIGH | Released | 2023-06-07 14:12:07 | ||
| Oracle Linux 6 ELS | kernel | 2.6.32 | 7.8 | HIGH | Released | CLSA-2022:1669850228 | 2022-11-30 19:55:16 | |
| Ubuntu 16.04 ELS | linux-hwe | 4.15.0 | 7.8 | HIGH | Released | CLSA-2022:1664906081 | 2022-10-04 14:02:46 | |
| Ubuntu 16.04 ELS | linux | 4.4.0 | 7.8 | HIGH | Released | CLSA-2022:1649869212 | 2022-04-19 15:56:34 | |
| Ubuntu 18.04 ELS | linux | 4.15.0 | 7.8 | HIGH | Already Fixed | 2023-06-02 09:10:30 |