MSRC_CVE-2021-26708

Vulnerability from csaf_microsoft - Published: 2021-02-02 00:00 - Updated: 2021-02-11 00:00
Summary
A local privilege escalation was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.10.13. Multiple race conditions in the AF_VSOCK implementation are caused by wrong locking in net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c. The race conditions were implicitly introduced in the commits that added VSOCK multi-transport support.

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