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Vulnerability · Published Mar 30, 2021 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2021-29647

Medium 5.5

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in the linux package (Debian). There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.4% (higher than 31% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS NVD)5.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.4%top 69.4% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.11.11. qrtr_recvmsg in net/qrtr/qrtr.c allows attackers to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory because of a partially uninitialized data structure, aka CID-50535249f624.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:12linux5.10.28-1DEBIAN-CVE-2021-29647
Debian:13linux5.10.28-1DEBIAN-CVE-2021-29647
Debian:14linux5.10.28-1DEBIAN-CVE-2021-29647
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iot-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-29647
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspi-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-29647
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-29647

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
n/a n/a n/a

References