CVE-2021-20297

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Summary

CVECVE-2021-20297
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-05-26 21:15:00 UTC
Updated2021-06-03 17:20:00 UTC
DescriptionA flaw was found in NetworkManager in versions before 1.30.0. Setting match.path and activating a profile crashes NetworkManager. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-20

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 33 All All All
Application Gnome Networkmanager All All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 8.0 All All All
Application Redhat Openshift Container Platform 4.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
1943282 – (CVE-2021-20297) CVE-2021-20297 NetworkManager: Profile with match.path setting triggers crash MISC bugzilla.redhat.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 159184 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for NetworkManager and libnma (ELSA-2021-1574)
  • 179521 Debian Security Update for network-manager (CVE-2021-20297)
  • 198329 Ubuntu Security Notification for NetworkManager vulnerability (USN-4914-1)
  • 239340 Red Hat Update for NetworkManager and libnma (RHSA-2021:1574)
  • 501634 Alpine Linux Security Update for networkmanager-elogind
  • 501635 Alpine Linux Security Update for networkmanager
  • 940086 AlmaLinux Security Update for NetworkManager and libnma (ALSA-2021:1574)
  • 960694 Rocky Linux Security Update for NetworkManager and libnma (RLSA-2021:1574)
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