CVE-2021-43267 Information

Description

An issue was discovered in net/tipc/crypto.c in the Linux kernel before 5.14.16. The Transparent Inter-Process Communication (TIPC) functionality allows remote attackers to exploit insufficient validation of user-supplied sizes for the MSG_CRYPTO message type.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/fa40d9734a57bcbfa79a280189799f76c88f7bb0 https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.14.16 https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RDDEW4APTYKJK365HC2JZIVXYUV7ZRN7/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CVWL7HZV5T5OEKJPO2D67RMFMKBBXGGB/ https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20211125-0002/ http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/02/10/1

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

9.8