CVE-2021-26708

kernel: race conditions caused by wrong locking in net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c

Published Feb 5, 2021 CVSS 3.1 · 7.0 High EPSS 1.6% KEV · Not listed
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.

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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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