CVE-2021-46912
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-02-27 06:53
Modified
2024-11-04 11:55
Severity ?
Summary
net: Make tcp_allowed_congestion_control readonly in non-init netns
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1ccdf1bed140820240e383ba0accc474ffc7f006Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/35d7491e2f77ce480097cabcaf93ed409e916e12Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/97684f0970f6e112926de631fdd98d9693c7e5c1Patch
Impacted products
LinuxLinux
LinuxLinux
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