Security Advisory

CVE-2021-20177

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2021-05-26 20:48:25
Last updated 2024-08-03 17:30:07
Assigner redhat
State PUBLISHED

Description

A flaw was found in the Linux kernels implementation of string matching within a packet. A privileged user (with root or CAP_NET_ADMIN) when inserting iptables rules could insert a rule which can panic the system. Kernel before kernel 5.5-rc1 is affected.