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Debian: CVE-2021-45469: linux -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2021-45469: linux -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
12/23/2021
Created
03/11/2022
Added
03/10/2022
Modified
08/17/2022

Description

In __f2fs_setxattr in fs/f2fs/xattr.c in the Linux kernel through 5.15.11, there is an out-of-bounds memory access when an inode has an invalid last xattr entry.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-linux

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