CVE-2021-4218

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Aug 24, 2022
Updated: Aug 3, 2024
Reserved: Feb 1, 2022

Description

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s implementation of reading the SVC RDMA counters. Reading the counter sysctl panics the system. This flaw allows a local attacker with local access to cause a denial of service while the system reboots. The issue is specific to CentOS/RHEL.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

CWE-665 Improper Initialization -> CWE-824 - Access of Uninitialized Pointer

Affected Products

Product	Versions
kerneln/a	NAAffected

References

https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=18395
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2048359
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-4218

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