Incorrect Calculation of Buffer Size The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-headers  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-KERNELHEADERS-4174047
  • published10 Jan 2022
  • disclosed10 Jan 2022

Introduced: 10 Jan 2022

CVE-2021-4155  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-131  (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-headers package and not the kernel-headers package as distributed by RHEL.

A data leak flaw was found in the way XFS_IOC_ALLOCSP IOCTL in the XFS filesystem allowed for size increase of files with unaligned size. A local attacker could use this flaw to leak data on the XFS filesystem otherwise not accessible to them.