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.
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cve-icon 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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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2021-02-05T14:15:18.780

Modified: 2023-11-09T13:57:20.637


Link: CVE-2021-26708

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