CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-3753
4.7 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2022-02-16
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 4.7 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 1.9 LOW — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-125, CWE-362
Description
A race problem was seen in the vt_k_ioctl in drivers/tty/vt/vt_ioctl.c in the Linux kernel, which may cause an out of bounds read in vt as the write access to vc_mode is not protected by lock-in vt_ioctl (KDSETMDE). The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 5.15)
• redhat enterprise linux 7.0
• redhat enterprise linux 8.0
• netapp active iq unified manager
• netapp element software
• netapp hci management node
• netapp solidfire
• netapp bootstrap os
• netapp h300s firmware
• netapp h500s firmware
• netapp h700s firmware
• netapp h410s firmware
• netapp h410c firmware
Related
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1999589 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/2287a51ba822384834dafc1c798453375d1107c7 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221028-0003/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/09/01/4 Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1999589 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/2287a51ba822384834dafc1c798453375d1107c7 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221028-0003/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/09/01/4 Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory