vulnerability

Arch Linux: Information disclosure (CVE-2021-20269)

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Mar 9, 2022
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Nov 27, 2025

Description

A security issue was found in kexec-tools where vmcore-dmesg.txt extracted from the vmcore of a previous kernel panic is created world-readable. It is possible that this could be used to leak kernel internal information from a previous execution if it was output to the ring buffer or part of the panic backtrace. An unprivileged user with a local account can use this to extract kernel internal information resulting in an information leak.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest
Title
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