CVE-2021-3753

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Feb 16, 2022
Updated
Aug 3, 2024
Reserved
Aug 31, 2021

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Description

A race problem was seen in the vt_k_ioctl in drivers/tty/vt/vt_ioctl.c in the Linux kernel, which may cause an out of bounds read in vt as the write access to vc_mode is not protected by lock-in vt_ioctl (KDSETMDE). The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality.

Scores

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Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
kerneln/a
  • Linux kernel 5.15-rc1Affected

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