Description
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.
Published: 2021-02-05
Score: 7.0 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2021-13497 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-4727-1 Linux kernel vulnerability
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Linux Linux Kernel
Netapp 500f A250 Aff Baseboard Management Controller Baseboard Management Controller 500f Firmware Baseboard Management Controller A250 Firmware Cloud Backup Fas Baseboard Management Controller Hci H410c Hci H410c Firmware Solidfire \& Hci Management Node Solidfire Baseboard Management Controller
Redhat Enterprise Linux
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-03T20:33:41.296Z

Reserved: 2021-02-05T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2021-26708

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Status : Modified

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

Modified: 2024-11-21T05:56:42.880

Link: CVE-2021-26708

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2021-02-05T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2021-26708 - Bugzilla

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