CVE-2021-38206
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5070-1
Severity Score
Exploit Likelihood
Affected Versions
Public Exploits
0Exploited in Wild
-Decision
Descriptions
The mac80211 subsystem in the Linux kernel before 5.12.13, when a device supporting only 5 GHz is used, allows attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference in the radiotap parser) by injecting a frame with 802.11a rates.
El subsistema mac80211 en el kernel de Linux versiones anteriores a 5.12.13, cuando se utiliza un dispositivo que sólo soporta 5 GHz, permite a atacantes causar una denegación de servicio (desreferencia de puntero NULL en el analizador de radiotap) al inyectar una trama con tasas 802.11a
Maxim Levitsky and Paolo Bonzini discovered that the KVM hypervisor implementation for AMD processors in the Linux kernel allowed a guest VM to disable restrictions on VMLOAD/VMSAVE in a nested guest. An attacker in a guest VM could use this to read or write portions of the host's physical memory. Maxim Levitsky discovered that the KVM hypervisor implementation for AMD processors in the Linux kernel did not properly prevent a guest VM from enabling AVIC in nested guest VMs. An attacker in a guest VM could use this to write to portions of the host's physical memory. Various other issues were also addressed.
CVSS Scores
SSVC
- Decision:-
Timeline
- 2021-08-08 CVE Reserved
- 2021-08-08 CVE Published
- 2024-08-04 CVE Updated
- 2025-03-30 EPSS Updated
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- ---------- KEV Due Date
- ---------- First Exploit
CWE
- CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference
CAPEC
References (2)
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https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.12.13 | 2021-08-12 | |
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/bddc0c411a45d3718ac535a070f349be8eca8d48 | 2021-08-12 |
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Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions
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Vendor | Product | Version | Other | Status | <-- --> | Vendor | Product | Version | Other | Status |
Linux Search vendor "Linux" | Linux Kernel Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" | < 5.12.13 Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" and version " < 5.12.13" | - |
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