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Out-of-bounds Read The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-devel  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-KERNELDEVEL-2327222
  • published28 Dec 2021
  • disclosed6 Dec 2021
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Introduced: 6 Dec 2021

CVE-2021-45469  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:8.

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 RHEL.

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.

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