cve-2021-20269
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-03-09 16:29
Modified
2024-08-03 17:37
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1934261Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1934261Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a kexec-tools Version: 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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