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CVE-2022-34918 - A crack in the Linux firewall

In our previous article Yet another bug into Netfilter, I presented a vulnerability found within the Netfilter subsystem of the Linux kernel. During my investigation, I found a weird comparison that does not fully protect a copy within a buffer. It led to a heap buffer overflow that was exploited to obtain root privileges on Ubuntu 22.04. CVE-2022-34918 - A crack in the Linux firewall