vulnerability

Rocky Linux: CVE-2021-4157: kernel (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Mar 25, 2022
Added
Mar 5, 2024
Modified
Aug 13, 2025

Description

An out of memory bounds write flaw (1 or 2 bytes of memory) in the Linux kernel NFS subsystem was found in the way users use mirroring (replication of files with NFS). A user, having access to the NFS mount, could potentially use this flaw to crash the system or escalate privileges on the system.

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