A local privilege escalation was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.10.13. Multiple race conditions in the AF_VSOCK implementation are caused by wrong locking in net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c. The race conditions were implicitly introduced in the commits that added VSOCK multi-transport support.
A local privilege escalation was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.10.13. Multiple race conditions in the AF_VSOCK implementation are caused by wrong locking in net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c. The race conditions were implicitly introduced in the commits that added VSOCK multi-transport support.
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/02/04/5 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?h=v5.10.13&id=55d900415b81680bcd5f93be51f26ebfc51ac6fb
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