Red Hat: CVE-2021-3501: CVE-2021-3501 kernel: userspace applications can misuse the KVM API to cause a write of 16 bytes at an offset up to 32 GB from vcpu->run (Multiple Advisories)
4
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)
05/06/2021
06/03/2021
06/02/2021
03/13/2024
Description
A flaw was found in the Linux kernel in versions before 5.12. The value of internal.ndata, in the KVM API, is mapped to an array index, which can be updated by a user process at anytime which could lead to an out-of-bounds write. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data integrity and system availability.
Solution(s)
- redhat-upgrade-kernel
- redhat-upgrade-kernel-rt
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