CVE-2021-3753 (GCVE-0-2021-3753)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-02-16 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-03 17:09
VLAI
Summary
A race problem was seen in the vt_k_ioctl in drivers/tty/vt/vt_ioctl.c in the Linux kernel, which may cause an out of bounds read in vt as the write access to vc_mode is not protected by lock-in vt_ioctl (KDSETMDE). The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality.
CWE
Assigner
redhat CNA under the redhat root
CNA scorecard B 82/100 over 1042 records in the last 180 days details
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
n/a kernel Affected: Linux kernel 5.15-rc1
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