| Name | CVE-2021-26708 |
| Description | A local privilege escalation was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.10.13. Multiple race conditions in the AF_VSOCK implementation are caused by wrong locking in net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c. The race conditions were implicitly introduced in the commits that added VSOCK multi-transport support. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more) |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| linux (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 3.16.84-1 | vulnerable |
| stretch (security) | 4.9.320-2 | fixed | |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 4.9.320-3 | fixed | |
| buster | 4.19.249-2 | fixed | |
| buster (security) | 4.19.269-1 | fixed | |
| bullseye | 5.10.158-2 | fixed | |
| bullseye (security) | 5.10.162-1 | fixed | |
| bookworm | 6.1.15-1 | fixed | |
| sid | 6.1.20-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| linux | source | jessie | (unfixed) | end-of-life | ||
| linux | source | stretch | (not affected) | |||
| linux | source | buster | (not affected) | |||
| linux | source | (unstable) | 5.10.13-1 |
[buster] - linux <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
[stretch] - linux <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/02/04/5
https://git.kernel.org/linus/c518adafa39f37858697ac9309c6cf1805581446