Summary: | CVE-2021-4001 kernel: race condition when the EBPF map is frozen | ||
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Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz <gsuckevi> |
Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team> |
Status: | NEW --- | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | unspecified | CC: | acaringi, adscvr, airlied, alciregi, bdettelb, bhu, bskeggs, chwhite, dhoward, 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, swood, vkumar, walters, williams |
Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | kernel 5.16 rc2 | Doc Type: | If docs needed, set a value |
Doc Text: |
A race condition was found in the Linux kernel's ebpf verifier between bpf_map_update_elem and bpf_map_freeze due to a missing lock in kernel/bpf/syscall.c. In this flaw, a local user with a special privilege (cap_sys_admin or cap_bpf) can modify the frozen mapped address space.
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Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Bug Depends On: | 2025646, 2027593, 2029194, 2029195, 2029196, 2029197, 2029198 | ||
Bug Blocks: | 2024668, 2025647 |
Description
Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz
2021-11-22 16:34:57 UTC
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 2025646] |