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.
problem types: CWE-287
affected:
{
vendor: n/a
product: kernel
versions:
version: kernel 5.17 rc3, status: affected
}