CVE-2021-4001

A race condition was found in the Linux kernel's ebpf verifier between bpfmapupdateelem and bpfmapfreeze due to a missing lock in kernel/bpf/syscall.c. In this flaw, a local user with a special privilege (capsysadmin or capbpf) can modify the frozen mapped address space. This flaw affects kernel versions prior to 5.16 rc2.

References

Affected packages

Git /

Affected ranges

Database specific

unresolved_ranges

[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "5.15"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "5.16-rc1"
            }
        ]
    }
]

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-4001.json"