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CVE-2021-4155 Detail

Description

A data leak flaw was found in the way XFS_IOC_ALLOCSP IOCTL in the XFS filesystem allowed for size increase of files with unaligned size. A local attacker could use this flaw to leak data on the XFS filesystem otherwise not accessible to them.


Metrics

 
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Hyperlink Resource
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-4155 Mitigation  Third Party Advisory 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2034813 Issue Tracking  Third Party Advisory 
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=983d8e60f50806f90534cc5373d0ce867e5aaf79 Mailing List  Patch  Vendor Advisory 
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-4155 Third Party Advisory 
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/01/10/1 Mailing List  Patch  Third Party Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-131 Incorrect Calculation of Buffer Size cwe source acceptance level NIST   Red Hat, Inc.  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2021-4155
NVD Published Date:
08/24/2022
NVD Last Modified:
08/29/2022
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.