CVE-2021-38166
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-08-07 17:50
Modified
2024-08-04 01:37
Severity ?
Summary
In kernel/bpf/hashtab.c in the Linux kernel through 5.13.8, there is an integer overflow and out-of-bounds write when many elements are placed in a single bucket. NOTE: exploitation might be impractical without the CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf.git/commit/?id=c4eb1f403243fc7bbb7de644db8587c03de36da6Patch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GUVLBJKZMWA3E3YXSH4SZ7BOYGJP4GXP/
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UL6CH5M5PRLMA3KPBX4LPUO6Z73GRISO/
cve@mitre.orghttps://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210806150419.109658-1-th.yasumatsu%40gmail.com/
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210909-0001/Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4978Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf.git/commit/?id=c4eb1f403243fc7bbb7de644db8587c03de36da6Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GUVLBJKZMWA3E3YXSH4SZ7BOYGJP4GXP/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UL6CH5M5PRLMA3KPBX4LPUO6Z73GRISO/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210806150419.109658-1-th.yasumatsu%40gmail.com/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210909-0001/Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4978Third Party Advisory
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