CVE-2021-4204
medium
CVSS v3
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VIR risk
5.5
Description
An out-of-bounds (OOB) memory access flaw was found in the Linux kernel's eBPF due to an Improper Input Validation. This flaw allows a local attacker with a special privilege to crash the system or leak internal information.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No vendor mitigations ingested yet for this CVE. The mitigation-content worker queues fetches as references arrive — check back in a few minutes, or see the references list below.
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| rocky | 8 | fixed | |
| sles | affected | | |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 5.17.3-1 |
| debian | bullseye | affected | |
| debian | forky | fixed | 5.17.3-1 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 5.17.3-1 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 5.17.3-1 |
| almalinux | 8 | fixed | kernel-rt-modules-extra-4.18.0-553.rt7.342.el8_10.x86_64.rpm |
References
- https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2024:2950
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-4204.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-4204
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3138
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1731000
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1746732
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1888726
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1999589
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2039178
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2043520
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2044578
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2150953
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2151959
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2177759
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2179892
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2213132
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2218332
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2219359
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2221039
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2221463
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2221702
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2226777
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2226784
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2226787
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2226788
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Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.