Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm Affecting kernel-devel package, versions *
Threat Intelligence
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0.1% (42nd
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-CENTOS7-KERNELDEVEL-2339436
- published 13 Jan 2022
- disclosed 31 May 2021
Introduced: 31 May 2021
CVE-2021-45485 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for Centos:7 kernel-devel.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-devel package and not the kernel-devel package as distributed by Centos.
See How to fix? for Centos:7 relevant fixed versions and status.
In the IPv6 implementation in the Linux kernel before 5.13.3, net/ipv6/output_core.c has an information leak because of certain use of a hash table which, although big, doesn't properly consider that IPv6-based attackers can typically choose among many IPv6 source addresses.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-45485
- https://arxiv.org/pdf/2112.09604.pdf
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.13.3
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=62f20e068ccc50d6ab66fdb72ba90da2b9418c99
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:1975
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:1988
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220121-0001/
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html
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