Denial of Service Vulnerability in Linux Kernel's SVC RDMA Counter Reading Implementation

Denial of Service Vulnerability in Linux Kernel's SVC RDMA Counter Reading Implementation

CVE-2021-4218 · MEDIUM Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s implementation of reading the SVC RDMA counters. Reading the counter sysctl panics the system. This flaw allows a local attacker with local access to cause a denial of service while the system reboots. The issue is specific to CentOS/RHEL.

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