Vulnerabilities > CVE-2021-29648 - Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
LOW Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.11.11. The BPF subsystem does not properly consider that resolved_ids and resolved_sizes are intentionally uninitialized in the vmlinux BPF Type Format (BTF), which can cause a system crash upon an unexpected access attempt (in map_create in kernel/bpf/syscall.c or check_btf_info in kernel/bpf/verifier.c), aka CID-350a5c4dd245.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.11.11
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.11.11
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=350a5c4dd2452ea999cc5e1d4a8dbf12de2f97ef
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=350a5c4dd2452ea999cc5e1d4a8dbf12de2f97ef
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