CVE-2021-3501
A flaw was found in the Linux kernel in versions before 5.12. The value of internal.ndata, in the KVM API, is mapped to an array index, which can be updated by a user process at anytime which could lead to an out-of-bounds write. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data integrity and system availability.
- Score
- CVSS 3.1 7.1 High
- Status
- Modified - secalert@redhat.com
- Published
- 2021-05-06
- Last modified
- 2026-08-05
- Weaknesses
- CWE-787
Affected products
- Fedora (Fedoraproject)
- Kernel (Linux)
- Linux Kernel (Linux)
- Cloud Backup (Netapp)
- H300e Firmware (Netapp)
- H300s Firmware (Netapp)
- H410c Firmware (Netapp)
- H410s Firmware (Netapp)
- H500e Firmware (Netapp)
- H500s Firmware (Netapp)
- H700e Firmware (Netapp)
- H700s Firmware (Netapp)
- Solidfire Baseboard Management Controller Firmware (Netapp)
- Enterprise Linux (Redhat)
- Enterprise Linux For Real Time (Redhat)
- Enterprise Linux For Real Time For Nfv (Redhat)
- Enterprise Linux For Real Time For Nfv Tus (Redhat)
- Enterprise Linux For Real Time Tus (Redhat)
- Virtualization (Redhat)
- Virtualization Host (Redhat)
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1950136
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=04c4f2ee3f68c9a4bf1653d15f1a9a435ae33f7a
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210618-0008/
