CVSS 3.1
7.0 highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2021-4083
A read-after-free memory flaw was found in the Linux kernel's garbage collection for Unix domain socket file handlers in the way users call close() and fget() simultaneously and can potentially trigger a race condition. This flaw allows a local user to crash the system or escalate their privileges on the system. This flaw affects Linux kernel versions prior to 5.16-rc4.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 23% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWEs
- CWE-362, CWE-416
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- debian:debian_linux
- linux:linux_kernel
- netapp:h300e_firmware
- netapp:h300s_firmware
- netapp:h410c_firmware
- netapp:h410s_firmware
- netapp:h500e_firmware
- netapp:h500s_firmware
- netapp:h700e_firmware
- netapp:h700s_firmware
- netapp:hci_management_node
- netapp:solidfire
- oracle:communications_cloud_native_core_binding_support_function
- oracle:communications_cloud_native_core_network_exposure_function
- oracle:communications_cloud_native_core_policy
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2029923
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=054aa8d439b9
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/03/msg00011.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/03/msg00012.html
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220217-0005/