CVE-2021-36084 (GCVE-0-2021-36084)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-07-01 02:49 – Updated: 2025-11-03 21:44
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
The CIL compiler in SELinux 3.2 has a use-after-free in __cil_verify_classperms (called from __cil_verify_classpermission and __cil_pre_verify_helper).
Severity
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
6 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz-vulns/blob/mai… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detai… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux/commit/… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA |
| https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-2025020… | |
| https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024… |
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