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CVE-2021-20194

n/a / kernel PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

There is a vulnerability in the linux kernel versions higher than 5.2 (if kernel compiled with config params CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL=y , CONFIG_BPF=y , CONFIG_CGROUPS=y , CONFIG_CGROUP_BPF=y , CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY not set, and BPF hook to getsockopt is registered). As result of BPF execution, the local user can trigger bug in __cgroup_bpf_run_filter_getsockopt() function that can lead to heap overflow (because of non-hardened usercopy). The impact of attack could be deny of service or possibly privileges escalation.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
n/a / kernelaffected kernel 5.2 and higher.

CWE

CWE-20

References

ADP enrichment

CVE

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