CVE-2021-20269 (GCVE-0-2021-20269)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-03-09 16:29 – Updated: 2024-08-03 17:37
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A flaw was found in the permissions of a log file created by kexec-tools. This flaw allows a local unprivileged user to read this file and leak kernel internal information from a previous panic. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality. This flaw affects kexec-tools shipped by Fedora versions prior to 2.0.21-8 and RHEL versions prior to 2.0.20-47.
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n/a kexec-tools Affected: Fedora kexec-tools versions prior to 2.0.21-8 and RHEL kexec-tools versions prior to 2.0.20-47
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