Bug 2000457 (CVE-2021-34866)

Summary: CVE-2021-34866 kernel: eBPF verification flaw
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Dhananjay Arunesh <darunesh>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: acaringi, adscvr, airlied, alciregi, bhu, chwhite, crwood, dvlasenk, hdegoede, hkrzesin, jarod, jarodwilson, jburrell, jeremy, jforbes, jglisse, jlelli, jonathan, josef, jshortt, jstancek, jwboyer, kcarcia, kernel-maint, kernel-mgr, lgoncalv, linville, masami256, mchehab, nmurray, ptalbert, qzhao, rkeshri, rvrbovsk, steved, vkumar, vmalik, walters, williams
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: Kernel 5.14 Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
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A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel, where a type confusion problem in check_map_func_compatibility() may lead to free arbitrary kernel memory.
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Bug Depends On: 2004731, 2004732, 2004733    
Bug Blocks: 1997324, 2014625    

Description Dhananjay Arunesh 2021-09-02 08:00:28 UTC
A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel, where a type confusion problem in check_map_func_compatibility() may lead to free arbitrary kernel memory.

Reference:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf.git/commit/?id=5b029a32cfe4600f5e10e36b41778506b90fd4de
https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-21-1148/

Comment 21 errata-xmlrpc 2024-02-07 16:33:12 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support

Via RHSA-2024:0724 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0724