SB2021072263 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 update for kernel
Published: July 22, 2021 Updated: August 9, 2022
Breakdown by Severity
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-33034)
The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error in net/bluetooth/hci_event.c when destroying an hci_chan. A local user can escalate privileges on the system.
2) Integer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-33909)
The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to integer overflow during size_t-to-int conversion when creating, mounting, and deleting a deep directory structure whose total path length exceeds 1GB. An unprivileged local user can write up to 10-byte string to an offset of exactly -2GB-10B below the beginning of a vmalloc()ated kernel buffer.
Successful exploitation of vulnerability may allow an attacker to exploit the our-of-bounds write vulnerability to execute arbitrary code with root privileges.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.