Out-of-Bounds Memory Access in f2fs_setxattr in Linux Kernel

CVE-2021-45469 · HIGH Severity

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

In __f2fs_setxattr in fs/f2fs/xattr.c in the Linux kernel through 5.15.11, there is an out-of-bounds memory access when an inode has an invalid last xattr entry.

Learn more about our Cis Benchmark Audit For Distribution Independent Linux.