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Out-of-Bounds Affecting kernel-zfcpdump-devel package, versions <0:4.18.0-240.10.1.el8_3

Severity

 Recommended
high

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL8-KERNELZFCPDUMPDEVEL-3951635
  • published 26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed 9 Sep 2020
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Introduced: 9 Sep 2020

CVE-2020-25211 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-119 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:8 kernel-zfcpdump-devel to version 0:4.18.0-240.10.1.el8_3 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2021:0003.

NVD Description

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

In the Linux kernel through 5.8.7, local attackers able to inject conntrack netlink configuration could overflow a local buffer, causing crashes or triggering use of incorrect protocol numbers in ctnetlink_parse_tuple_filter in net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c, aka CID-1cc5ef91d2ff.

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

6 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Local
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    High
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    High
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Red Hat

6.7 medium
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SUSE

5.9 medium