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CVE-2021-20269

Published: Mar 9, 2022

Modified: Aug 3, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

A flaw was found in the permissions of a log file created by kexec-tools. This flaw allows a local unprivileged user to read this file and leak kernel internal information from a previous panic. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality. This flaw affects kexec-tools shipped by Fedora versions prior to 2.0.21-8 and RHEL versions prior to 2.0.20-47.

VendorProductVersions

n/a

kexec-tools

affected
Fedora kexec-tools versions prior to 2.0.21-8 and RHEL kexec-tools versions prior to 2.0.20-47

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-276

References

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