| Name | CVE-2021-3543 |
| Description | A flaw null pointer dereference in the Nitro Enclaves kernel driver was found in the way that Enclaves VMs forces closures on the enclave file descriptor. A local user of a host machine could use this flaw to crash the system or escalate their privileges on the system. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
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 (security), buster, buster (lts) | 4.19.316-1 | fixed |
| bullseye | 5.10.218-1 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 5.10.221-1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 6.1.94-1 | fixed |
| bookworm (security) | 6.1.99-1 | fixed |
| trixie | 6.9.10-1 | fixed |
| sid | 6.9.11-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| linux | source | stretch | (not affected) | | | |
| linux | source | buster | (not affected) | | | |
| linux | source | (unstable) | 5.10.38-1 | unimportant | | |
Notes
[buster] - linux <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
[stretch] - linux <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
https://git.kernel.org/linus/f1ce3986baa62cffc3c5be156994de87524bab99
nitro_enclaves not enabled in Debian binary builds