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CVE-2021-4157
high
Description
An out of memory bounds write flaw (1 or 2 bytes of memory) in the Linux kernel NFS subsystem was found in the way users use mirroring (replication of files with NFS). A user, having access to the NFS mount, could potentially use this flaw to crash the system or escalate privileges on the system.
References
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220602-0007/
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210517140244.822185482%40linuxfoundation.org/