CVE-2021-3501

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: May 5, 2021
Updated: Aug 5, 2026
Reserved: Apr 15, 2021

Description

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel in versions before 5.12. The value of internal.ndata, in the KVM API, is mapped to an array index, which can be updated by a user process at anytime which could lead to an out-of-bounds write. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data integrity and system availability.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

CWE-787

Affected Products

Product	Versions
kernelLinux	5.9 to before 5.10.32Affected 5.11 to before 5.11.16Affected

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1950136
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=04c4f2ee3f68c9a4bf1653d15f1a9a435ae33f7a
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210618-0008/

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