Microsoft security update for CVE-2022-2977
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Microsoft's advisory
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🎯 Affected products2
- cbl2 kernel 5.15.70.1-1 on CBL Mariner 2.0
- cm1 kernel 5.10.144.1-1 on CBL Mariner 1.0
✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 2 updates
2 rows: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.
| KB article | Update | Fixed build |
|---|---|---|
| — | Security Update | 5.10.144.1-1 |
| — | Security Update | 5.15.70.1-1 |
🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2022-2977
- EchelonGraph score
- 7.8 HIGH
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Fix status
- A fix is available — apply it.
Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority
A flaw was found in the Linux kernel implementation of proxied virtualized TPM devices. On a system where virtualized TPM devices are configured (this is not the default) a local attacker can create a use-after-free and create a situation where it may be possible to escalate privileges on the system.
Published by Red Hat, Inc., the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2022-2977, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).