CVE-2021-26708
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Feb 5, 2021
- Updated
- Aug 3, 2024
- Reserved
- Feb 5, 2021
Description
A local privilege escalation was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.10.13. Multiple race conditions in the AF_VSOCK implementation are caused by wrong locking in net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c. The race conditions were implicitly introduced in the commits that added VSOCK multi-transport support.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
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References
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c518adafa39f37858697ac9309c6cf1805581446
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.10.13
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/02/04/5
- [oss-security] 20210205 Re: Linux kernel: Exploitable vulnerabilities in AF_VSOCK implementationmailing-list
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210312-0008/
- [oss-security] 20210409 Re: Linux kernel: Exploitable vulnerabilities in AF_VSOCK implementationmailing-list
- [oss-security] 20220125 CVE-2022-0185: Linux kernel slab out-of-bounds write: exploit and writeupmailing-list
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