kernel

CVE-2021-3753
MEDIUM 4.7

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.36 % · percentile 30 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
redhat
NVD status
Modified

Description

A race problem was seen in the vt_k_ioctl in drivers/tty/vt/vt_ioctl.c in the Linux kernel, which may cause an out of bounds read in vt as the write access to vc_mode is not protected by lock-in vt_ioctl (KDSETMDE). The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-125 — Out-of-bounds Read
  • CWE-362 — Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.7CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 2.0LOW 1.9AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:NNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
kernelaffected Linux kernel 5.15-rc1

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD