CVE-2021-3736

Summary

CVECVE-2021-3736
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-08-23 16:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-08-25 02:28:00 UTC
DescriptionA flaw was found in the Linux kernel. A memory leak problem was found in mbochs_ioctl in samples/vfio-mdev/mbochs.c in Virtual Function I/O (VFIO) Mediated devices. This flaw could allow a local attacker to leak internal kernel information.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-401

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Red Hat Customer Portal - Access to 24x7 support and knowledge MISC access.redhat.com
1995570 – (CVE-2021-3736) CVE-2021-3736 kernel: uninitialized kernel stack may lead to information disclosure MISC bugzilla.redhat.com
vfio/mbochs: Fix missing error unwind of mbochs_used_mbytes · torvalds/linux@de5494a · GitHub MISC github.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 184028 Debian Security Update for linux (CVE-2021-3736)
  • 902784 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (10622)
  • 904000 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (10622-1)
  • 905911 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (10622-2)

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