CVE-2021-3753

Name
CVE-2021-3753
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.
NVD Severity
medium
Other trackers
Mailing lists
Exploits
Forges
GitHub (code, issues), Aports (code, issues)

References

Type URI
MISC https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1999589
MISC https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/09/01/4
MISC https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/2287a51ba822384834dafc1c798453375d1107c7

Match rules

CPE URI Source package Min version Max version
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* linux_kernel >= None < 5.15

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Source package Branch Version Maintainer Status