kernel: race conditions caused by wrong locking in net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. Wrong locking in the AFVSOCK socket can cause a local privilege escalation, bypassing SMEP and SMAP. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability...

kernel: race conditions caused by wrong locking in net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. Wrong locking in the AFVSOCK socket can cause a local privilege escalation, bypassing SMEP and SMAP. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability...

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...

UBUNTU-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...