cve-2021-3543
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-06-01 13:20
Modified
2024-08-03 17:01
Severity ?
Summary
A flaw null pointer dereference in the Nitro Enclaves kernel driver was found in the way that Enclaves VMs forces closures on the enclave file descriptor. A local user of a host machine could use this flaw to crash the system or escalate their privileges on the system.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1953022Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210429165941.27020-2-andraprs%40amazon.com/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1953022Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210429165941.27020-2-andraprs%40amazon.com/
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