Improper Preservation of Permissions The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-rt-core (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-KERNELRTCORE-1734743
- published15 Oct 2021
- disclosed13 Sept 2021
Introduced: 13 Sep 2021
CVE-2021-3847 (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-rt-core package and not the kernel-rt-core package as distributed by RHEL.
An unauthorized access to the execution of the setuid file with capabilities flaw in the Linux kernel OverlayFS subsystem was found in the way user copying a capable file from a nosuid mount into another mount. A local user could use this flaw to escalate their privileges on the system.