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.
References
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http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/02/05/6 | Mailing List Patch Third Party Advisory |
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/04/09/2 | Mailing List |
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/01/25/14 | Mailing List |
https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.10.13 | Release Notes Vendor Advisory |
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c518adafa39f37858697ac9309c6cf1805581446 | Patch Vendor Advisory |
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210312-0008/ | Patch Third Party Advisory |
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/02/04/5 | Mailing List Patch Third Party Advisory |
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2021-02-05T07:41:12
Updated: 2022-01-26T00:06:12
Reserved: 2021-02-05T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2021-26708
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NVD Information
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2021-02-05T14:15:18.780
Modified: 2023-11-09T13:57:20.637
Link: CVE-2021-26708
JSON object: View
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