CVE-2021-38203

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5096-1

Posted Sep 30, 2021

Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 5096-1 - Valentina Palmiotti discovered that the io_uring subsystem in the Linux kernel could be coerced to free adjacent memory. A local attacker could use this to execute arbitrary code. Benedict Schlueter discovered that the BPF subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly protect against Speculative Store Bypass side- channel attacks in some situations. A local attacker could possibly use this to expose sensitive information. Various other issues were also addressed.

tags | advisory, arbitrary, kernel, local

systems | linux, ubuntu

advisories | CVE-2021-34556, CVE-2021-35477, CVE-2021-3612, CVE-2021-3679, CVE-2021-37159, CVE-2021-3732, CVE-2021-38160, CVE-2021-38166, CVE-2021-38199, CVE-2021-38201, CVE-2021-38202, CVE-2021-38203, CVE-2021-38204, CVE-2021-38205, CVE-2021-40490, CVE-2021-41073

SHA-256 | 98f615f379d8346abea7dc65ffd543f999a46dbda2ec8a72bcaac4dbaea40126

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