CVE-2021-4197

Name
CVE-2021-4197
Description
An unprivileged write to the file handler flaw in the Linux kernel's control groups and namespaces subsystem was found in the way users have access to some less privileged process that are controlled by cgroups and have higher privileged parent process. It is actually both for cgroup2 and cgroup1 versions of control groups. A local user could use this flaw to crash the system or escalate their privileges on the system.
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=2035652
MISC https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20211209214707.805617-1-tj@kernel.org/T/
DEBIAN https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5127
CONFIRM https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220602-0006/

Match rules

CPE URI Source package Min version Max version
cpe:2.3:a:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* linux_kernel >= None < 5.17

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Source package Branch Version Maintainer Status