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Red Hat: CVE-2021-43267: CVE-2021-43267 kernel: Insufficient validation of user-supplied sizes for the MSG_CRYPTO message type (Multiple Advisories)

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Red Hat: CVE-2021-43267: CVE-2021-43267 kernel: Insufficient validation of user-supplied sizes for the MSG_CRYPTO message type (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/15/2021
Created
11/16/2021
Added
11/16/2021
Modified
03/13/2024

Description

An issue was discovered in net/tipc/crypto.c in the Linux kernel before 5.14.16. The Transparent Inter-Process Communication (TIPC) functionality allows remote attackers to exploit insufficient validation of user-supplied sizes for the MSG_CRYPTO message type.

Solution(s)

  • redhat-upgrade-kernel
  • redhat-upgrade-kernel-rt

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