Jul 21, 2021

Two Linux Bugs

Two Linux bugs highlighted today.

  • Sequoia: A Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Linux’s Filesystem Layer (CVE-2021-33909)
  • CVE-2021-33910: Denial of Service (Stack Exhaustion) in systemd (PID 1)

 

 [*] Searching cve-[['2021-33909', '2021-33910']] vulnerability definitions within Kenna.VI+....


[ CVE Description ]
 [*] CVE_ID : CVE-2021-33909
 [_] Desc   : fs/seq_file.c in the Linux kernel 3.16 through 5.13.x before 5.13.4 does not properly restrict seq buffer allocations, leading to an integer overflow, an Out-of-bounds Write, and escalation to root by an unprivileged user, aka CID-8cae8cd89f05.

 [_] C:2021-06-07 / P:2021-07-20 / L:2021-07-20
 [*] Vuln Risk           : 30.6247
 [*] Exploited [trend]   : 0 [holding]    [Pre_NVD]
 [_] Exploit/likehood    : False/0.1999% confidence

 [*] Malware sample : 0
 [*] Exploits/POC   : [0]
 [_] Fixes          : [4]
 [_] Threat Actors  : [0]
 [_] CVSS2 / CVSS3  : [ 7.2 / 8.4 ]

 [_] Vuln Products  : [0]

[ CVE Malware Family Info : None ]


[ CVE Description ]
 [*] CVE_ID : CVE-2021-33910
 [_] Desc   : basic/unit-name.c in systemd 220 through 248 has a Memory Allocation with an Excessive Size Value (involving strdupa and alloca for a pathname controlled by a local attacker) that results in an operating system crash.

 [_] C:2021-06-07 / P:2021-07-20 / L:2021-07-20
 [*] Vuln Risk           : 37.5
 [*] Exploited [trend]   : 0 [holding]    [Pre_NVD]
 [_] Exploit/likehood    : False/2.5210% confidence

 [*] Malware sample : 0
 [*] Exploits/POC   : [0]
 [_] Fixes          : [6]
 [_] Threat Actors  : [0]
 [_] CVSS2 / CVSS3  : [ 2.1 / 4.0 ]

 [_] Vuln Products  : [0]

[ CVE Malware Family Info : None ]

[ High_Profile_Vulnerability ]
 [!!!]   CVE-2021-33909 (30.6247) : []
 [!!!]   CVE-2021-33910 (37.5) : []


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