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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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerability (USN-4727-1)

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4727-1 advisory. Alexander Popov discovered that multiple race conditions existed in the AFVSOCK implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to cause a...

DEBIAN-CVE-2021-26708

A local privilege escalation was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.10.13. Multiple race conditions in the AFVSOCK implementation are caused by wrong locking in net/vmwvsock/afvsock.c. The race conditions were implicitly introduced in the commits that added VSOCK multi-transport support...

CVE-2021-26708

A local privilege escalation was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.10.13. Multiple race conditions in the AFVSOCK implementation are caused by wrong locking in net/vmwvsock/afvsock.c. The race conditions were implicitly introduced in the commits that added VSOCK multi-transport support...

CVE-2021-26708

A local privilege escalation was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.10.13. Multiple race conditions in the AFVSOCK implementation are caused by wrong locking in net/vmwvsock/afvsock.c. The race conditions were implicitly introduced in the commits that added VSOCK multi-transport support...