CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-4154
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2022-02-04
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-416
Description
A use-after-free flaw was found in cgroup1_parse_param in kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c in the Linux kernel's cgroup v1 parser. A local attacker with a user privilege could cause a privilege escalation by exploiting the fsconfig syscall parameter leading to a container breakout and a denial of service on the system.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.1 < 5.4.134)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.52)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.12.19)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.13 < 5.13.4)
• linux linux kernel 5.14
• redhat virtualization 4.0
• redhat enterprise linux 8.0
• netapp hci baseboard management controller h300e
• netapp hci baseboard management controller h300s
• netapp hci baseboard management controller h410s
• netapp hci baseboard management controller h500e
• netapp hci baseboard management controller h500s
• netapp hci baseboard management controller h700e
• netapp hci baseboard management controller h700s
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-416 Use After Free weakness
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2034514 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://cloud.google.com/anthos/clusters/docs/security-bulletins#gcp-2022-002 Third Party Advisory
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=3b0462726e7ef281c35a7a4ae33e93ee2bc9975b Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220225-0004/ Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2034514 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://cloud.google.com/anthos/clusters/docs/security-bulletins#gcp-2022-002 Third Party Advisory
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=3b0462726e7ef281c35a7a4ae33e93ee2bc9975b Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220225-0004/ Third Party Advisory