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GHSA-hhxw-8c9w-q5q9
GHSA-hhxw-8c9w-q5q9
PUBLISHED
CVSS 7 HIGH
Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published May 24, 2022
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.
Risk scores
CVSS 3.1
7
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Timeline
- May 24, 2022 CVE Published
- Apr 30, 2026 Security Advisory
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References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-26708 advisory
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.10.13 url
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c518adafa39f37858697ac9309c6cf1805581446 url
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/02/05/6 url
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/04/09/2 url
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210312-0008 url
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/01/25/14 url
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/02/04/5 url