Unspecified vulnerability in Linux kernel (CNVD-2021-24272)

Linux kernel is the kernel used by Linux, the open source operating system of the Linux Foundation in the United States. A security vulnerability exists in Linux kernel 5.11.8 and earlier versions that allows userspace to write data directly to the kernel stack frame. No details of the...

Buffer overflow

In drivers/pci/hotplug/rpadlparsysfs.c in the Linux kernel through 5.11.8, the RPA PCI Hotplug driver has a user-tolerable buffer overflow when writing a new device name to the driver from userspace, allowing userspace to write data to the kernel stack frame directly. This occurs because...