CVE-2021-35937

NameCVE-2021-35937
DescriptionA race condition vulnerability was found in rpm. A local unprivileged user could use this flaw to bypass the checks that were introduced in response to CVE-2017-7500 and CVE-2017-7501, potentially gaining root privileges. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs990543

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
rpm (PTS)jessie4.11.3-1.1vulnerable
stretch4.12.0.2+dfsg1-2vulnerable
buster4.14.2.1+dfsg1-1vulnerable
bullseye4.16.1.2+dfsg1-3vulnerable
bookworm4.18.0+dfsg-1+deb12u1vulnerable
trixie4.18.2+dfsg-2vulnerable
sid4.18.2+dfsg-2.1vulnerable

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
rpmsource(unstable)(unfixed)990543

Notes

[bookworm] - rpm <ignored> (Minor issue)
[bullseye] - rpm <ignored> (Minor issue)
[buster] - rpm <ignored> (Minor issue)
[stretch] - rpm <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1964125
[jessie] - rpm <no-dsa> (Minor issue)

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