Release Date: | 2021-02-05 |
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.
See more information about CVE-2021-26708 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD
NOTE: The following CVSS v3.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
Base Score: | 7 | Base Metrics: | AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
Access Vector: | Local network | Attack Complexity: | High |
Privileges Required: | Low | User Interaction: | None |
Scope: | Unchanged | Confidentiality Impact: | High |
Integrity Impact: | High | Availability Impact: | High |
Platform | Errata | Release Date |
Oracle Linux version 8 (kernel) | ELSA-2021-1093 | 2021-04-07 |
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