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Alma Linux: CVE-2021-33033: Moderate: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update (ALSA-2021-4356)

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Alma Linux: CVE-2021-33033: Moderate: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update (ALSA-2021-4356)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
05/14/2021
Created
05/05/2022
Added
05/04/2022
Modified
09/15/2022

Description

The Linux kernel before 5.11.14 has a use-after-free in cipso_v4_genopt in net/ipv4/cipso_ipv4.c because the CIPSO and CALIPSO refcounting for the DOI definitions is mishandled, aka CID-ad5d07f4a9cd. This leads to writing an arbitrary value.

Solution(s)

  • alma-upgrade-kernel-tools-libs-devel

References

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