Security Advisory

CVE-2021-3679

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2021-08-05 19:54:42
Last updated 2024-08-03 17:01:08
Assigner redhat
State PUBLISHED

Description

A lack of CPU resource in the Linux kernel tracing module functionality in versions prior to 5.14-rc3 was found in the way user uses trace ring buffer in a specific way. Only privileged local users (with CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability) could use this flaw to starve the resources causing denial of service.