Use After Free The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-rt-debug-devel  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-KERNELRTDEBUGDEVEL-1909574
  • published2 Nov 2021
  • disclosed23 Sept 2021

Introduced: 23 Sep 2021

CVE-2021-43057  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (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-debug-devel package and not the kernel-rt-debug-devel package as distributed by RHEL.

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.14.8. A use-after-free in selinux_ptrace_traceme (aka the SELinux handler for PTRACE_TRACEME) could be used by local attackers to cause memory corruption and escalate privileges, aka CID-a3727a8bac0a. This occurs because of an attempt to access the subjective credentials of another task.