CVE-2021-3543

Summary

CVECVE-2021-3543
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-06-01 14:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:38:00 UTC
DescriptionA flaw null pointer dereference in the Nitro Enclaves kernel driver was found in the way that Enclaves VMs forces closures on the enclave file descriptor. A local user of a host machine could use this flaw to crash the system or escalate their privileges on the system.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-476 | CWE-416

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 34 All All All
Application Nitro Enclaves Project Nitro Enclaves All All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 8.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[PATCH v1 0/1] Nitro Enclaves kernel driver issue fix - Andra Paraschiv MISC lore.kernel.org
[PATCH v1 1/1] nitro_enclaves: Fix stale file descriptors on failed usercopy - Andra Paraschiv MISC lore.kernel.org
1953022 – (CVE-2021-3543) CVE-2021-3543 kernel: nitro_enclaves stale file descriptors on failed usercopy MISC bugzilla.redhat.com
[PATCH v1 1/1] nitro_enclaves: Fix stale file descriptors on failed usercopy - Andra Paraschiv lore.kernel.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 159239 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for kernel (ELSA-2021-2168)
  • 179556 Debian Security Update for linux (CVE-2021-3543)
  • 198416 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-4997-1)
  • 198419 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (OEM) vulnerabilities (USN-5001-1)
  • 198426 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (KVM) vulnerabilities (USN-4997-2)
  • 239379 Red Hat Update for kernel (RHSA-2021:2168)
  • 239454 Red Hat Update for kernel-rt (RHSA-2021:2169)
  • 353158 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel : ALAS2KERNEL-5.10-2022-002
  • 940125 AlmaLinux Security Update for kernel (ALSA-2021:2168)
  • 960066 Rocky Linux Security Update for kernel (RLSA-2021:2168)
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