CVE-2021-22556 (GCVE-0-2021-22556)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-05-03 15:50 – Updated: 2025-04-21 13:54
VLAI?
Summary
The Security Team discovered an integer overflow bug that allows an attacker with code execution to issue memory cache invalidation operations on pages that they don’t own, allowing them to control kernel memory from userspace. We recommend upgrading to kernel version 4.1 or beyond.
Severity ?
5.3 (Medium)
CWE
- CWE-190 - Integer Overflow or Wraparound
Assigner
References
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Impacted products
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| Google LLC | Fuchsia Kernel |
Affected:
unspecified , < 4.1
(custom)
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