Security Advisory

CVE-2021-22555

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2021-07-07 11:20:10
Last updated 2025-12-30 20:32:33
Assigner Google
State PUBLISHED

Description

A heap out-of-bounds write affecting Linux since v2.6.19-rc1 was discovered in net/netfilter/x_tables.c. This allows an attacker to gain privileges or cause a DoS (via heap memory corruption) through user name space