CVE-2021-3736

medium

Description

A 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.

References

Advisories

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/de5494af4815a4c9328536c72741229b7de88e7f

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1995570

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3736

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2022-08-23

Updated: 2022-08-25

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N