CVE-2021-4150

2022-03-2319:46:46

CWE-416

redhat

www.cve.org

5.7 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

5.1%

JSON

A use-after-free flaw was found in the add_partition in block/partitions/core.c in the Linux kernel. A local attacker with user privileges could cause a denial of service on the system. The issue results from the lack of code cleanup when device_add call fails when adding a partition to the disk.

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "product": "kernel",
    "vendor": "n/a",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "kernel 5.15 rc7"
      }
    ]
  }
]