Vulnerabilities > CVE-2021-4028 - Use After Free vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
LOW Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
HIGH Availability impact
HIGH Summary
A flaw in the Linux kernel's implementation of RDMA communications manager listener code allowed an attacker with local access to setup a socket to listen on a high port allowing for a list element to be used after free. Given the ability to execute code, a local attacker could leverage this use-after-free to crash the system or possibly escalate privileges on the system.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/10/4/697
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2027201
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-4028
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=bc0bdc5afaa74
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1193167#c0
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221228-0002/