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CVE-2021-3609

Updated on 03 Mar 2022

Severity

7.0 High severity

Details

CVSS score
7.0
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE ID
Links
NISTCIRCLRHELUbuntu

Overview

About vulnerability

.A flaw was found in the CAN BCM networking protocol in the Linux kernel, where a local attacker can abuse a flaw in the CAN subsystem to corrupt memory, crash the system or escalate privileges. This race condition in net/can/bcm.c in the Linux kernel allows for local privilege escalation to root.

Details

Affected product:
AlmaLinux 8 , CentOS 6 , CentOS 6 ALT , CentOS 6 ELS , CentOS 6 plus , CentOS 7 , CentOS 7 ALT , CentOS 7 ELS , CentOS 7 plus , CentOS 8 , CentOS 8.4 ELS , CentOS 8.5 ELS , CloudLinux 6 ELS , CloudLinux OS 6 , CloudLinux OS 6h , CloudLinux OS 7 , CloudLinux OS 7h , CloudLinux OS 8 , Debian 10 , Debian 10 cloud , Debian 9 , Endurance 6 elrepo , Endurance 7 eig 3.10 , Endurance 7 eig 4.14 , OEL 8 Dell , OpenVZ 6 , Oracle Linux 6 , Oracle Linux 6 ELS , Oracle Linux 7 , Oracle Linux 8 , Proofpoint , Proxmox VE 5 , Proxmox VE 6 , RHEL 6 , RHEL 7 , RHEL 7 ELS , RHEL 8 , Rocky Linux 8 , Scientific 6 , Ubuntu 14.04 , Ubuntu 14.04 ESM , Ubuntu 16.04 , Ubuntu 16.04 ELS , Ubuntu 16.04 ESM , Ubuntu 18.04 , Ubuntu 18.04 ELS , Ubuntu 20.04 , Upstream 4.14 , Upstream 4.19 , Upstream 4.4 , Upstream 4.9
Affected packages:
linux-hwe @ 4.15.0 (+79 more)
.A flaw was found in the CAN BCM networking protocol in the Linux kernel, where a local attacker can abuse a flaw in the CAN subsystem to corrupt memory, crash the system or escalate privileges. This race condition in net/can/bcm.c in the Linux kernel allows for local privilege escalation to root.

Fixes