CVE-2021-3609

EPSS 0.4%CWE-362

Vexday Risk Score

3Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Track

No exploitation signal → monitor

CVSS —EPSS 0.4%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

03 Mar 2022Published on NVD

Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.

.A flaw was found in the CAN BCM networking protocol in the Linux kernel, where a local attacker can abuse a flaw in the CAN subsystem to corrupt memory, crash the system or escalate privileges. This race condition in net/can/bcm.c in the Linux kernel allows for local privilege escalation to root.

Affected products

n/a · kernel

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References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1971651 https://github.com/nrb547/kernel-exploitation/blob/main/cve-2021-3609/cve-2021-3609.md https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d5f9023fa61ee8b94f37a93f08e94b136cf1e463 https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220419-0004/https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/06/19/1