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CVE-2021-4150

Published: Mar 23, 2022

Modified: Aug 3, 2024

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Description

A use-after-free flaw was found in the add_partition in block/partitions/core.c in the Linux kernel. A local attacker with user privileges could cause a denial of service on the system. The issue results from the lack of code cleanup when device_add call fails when adding a partition to the disk.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	kernel	affected `kernel 5.15 rc7`

Weaknesses (CWE)

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2025938

x_refsource_MISC

https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/10/18/485

x_refsource_MISC

https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/9/6/781

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