CVE-2022-3606

A flaw was found in libbpf. When there are no program sections, obj->programs is left unallocated, causing a NULL pointer dereference in the following access to prog->sec_idx in find_prog_by_sec_insn. A local user could use this flaw to cause a denial of service.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7 are not affected by this issue as they did not include CO-RE relocations support for multi-prog sections (upstream commit db2b8b0)

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Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.