Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux, Linux 5.10

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was discovered in the way the legacyparseparam function in the Linux kernel’s Filesystem Context functionality verifies the length of the supplied parameters. A non-privileged user if non-privileged user namespaces are enabled, otherwise requiring CAPSYSADMIN...

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the btrfs_rm_device function in fs/btrfs/volumes.c in the Linux Kernel where triggering the bug requires ‘CAP_SYS_ADMIN’. This flaw allows a local attacker to crash the system or leak kernel internal information. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

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