CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-3764
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2022-08-23
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400, CWE-401
Description
A memory leak flaw was found in the Linux kernel's ccp_run_aes_gcm_cmd() function that allows an attacker to cause a denial of service. The vulnerability is similar to the older CVE-2019-18808. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (<= 5.14.20)
• linux linux kernel 5.15
Related
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3764 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1997467 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/505d9dcb0f7ddf9d075e729523a33d38642ae680 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-3764 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3764 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1997467 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/505d9dcb0f7ddf9d075e729523a33d38642ae680 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-3764 Third Party Advisory