CVE-2021-3178

Summary

CVECVE-2021-3178
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-01-19 07:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:37:00 UTC
Description** DISPUTED ** fs/nfsd/nfs3xdr.c in the Linux kernel through 5.10.8, when there is an NFS export of a subdirectory of a filesystem, allows remote attackers to traverse to other parts of the filesystem via READDIRPLUS. NOTE: some parties argue that such a subdirectory export is not intended to prevent this attack; see also the exports(5) no_subtree_check default behavior.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-22

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 33 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 33 All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: kernel-5.10.10-200.fc33 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] [DLA 2586-1] linux security update MLIST lists.debian.org
kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git - Linux kernel source tree MISC git.kernel.org Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
nfsd4: readdirplus shouldn't return parent of export - Patchwork patchwork.kernel.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: kernel-5.10.10-200.fc33 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
nfsd4: readdirplus shouldn't return parent of export - Patchwork MISC patchwork.kernel.org Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 180245 Debian Security Update for linux (CVE-2021-3178)
  • 198295 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux, Linux-aws, Linux-kvm, Linux-lts-xenial, Linux-raspi2, (USN-4876-1)
  • 198296 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux, Linux-aws, Linux-aws-hwe, Linux-azure, Linux-azure-4.15, (USN-4877-1)
  • 198297 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux, Linux-aws, Linux-aws-5.4, Linux-azure, Linux-azure-5.4, Linux-gcp, (USN-4878-1)
  • 198326 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-4910-1)
  • 198328 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (OEM) vulnerabilities (USN-4912-1)
  • 353100 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel : ALAC2012-2021-024
  • 353101 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kmod-mlx5 : ALAC2012-2021-025
  • 353102 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kmod-sfc : ALAC2012-2021-026
  • 353131 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel : ALAS2KERNEL-5.4-2022-020
  • 377055 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for cloud-kernel (ALINUX2-SA-2021:0027)
  • 6140383 AWS Bottlerocket Security Update for kernel (GHSA-55p7-vpmj-5wj4)
  • 670269 EulerOS Security Update for kernel (EulerOS-SA-2021-1808)
  • 670320 EulerOS Security Update for kernel (EulerOS-SA-2021-1904)
  • 670345 EulerOS Security Update for kernel (EulerOS-SA-2021-1879)
  • 670375 EulerOS Security Update for kernel (EulerOS-SA-2021-1950)
  • 670634 EulerOS Security Update for kernel (EulerOS-SA-2021-2392)
  • 900098 CBL-Mariner Linux Security Update for kernel 5.4.91
  • 903252 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (3817)
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