fkie_cve-2021-20269
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2022-03-10 17:41
Modified
2024-11-21 05:46
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
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
kexec-tools_project kexec-tools *
fedoraproject fedora -
kexec-tools_project kexec-tools *
redhat enterprise_linux -


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