Race Condition Affecting kernel-abi-stablelists package, versions <0:4.18.0-305.57.1.el8_4


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.37% (73rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-KERNELABISTABLELISTS-4197953
  • published11 Jan 2022
  • disclosed29 Sept 2021

Introduced: 29 Sep 2021

CVE-2021-4203  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-362  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:8 kernel-abi-stablelists to version 0:4.18.0-305.57.1.el8_4 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2022:5626.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-abi-stablelists package and not the kernel-abi-stablelists package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

A use-after-free read flaw was found in sock_getsockopt() in net/core/sock.c due to SO_PEERCRED and SO_PEERGROUPS race with listen() (and connect()) in the Linux kernel. In this flaw, an attacker with a user privileges may crash the system or leak internal kernel information.

CVSS Scores

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