CVE-2021-4157

Publication date

2022-03-25 18:02:43

Family

redhat

State

PUBLISHED

Description

An out of memory bounds write flaw (1 or 2 bytes of memory) in the Linux kernel NFS subsystem was found in the way users use mirroring (replication of files with NFS). A user, having access to the NFS mount, could potentially use this flaw to crash the system or escalate privileges on the system.