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ghsa-55h9-m2g5-r4xm

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-03-11 00:02

Modified

2022-03-17 00:02

Severity ?

6.2 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Details

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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   id: "GHSA-55h9-m2g5-r4xm",
   modified: "2022-03-17T00:02:04Z",
   published: "2022-03-11T00:02:34Z",
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cve-2021-20269

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2022-03-09 16:29

Modified

2024-08-03 17:37

Severity ?

Summary

References

▼	URL	Tags
	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1934261	x_refsource_MISC

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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