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THREAT OPS › Threat News › [NVD] CVE-2021-3501 (HIGH 7.1) — A flaw was found in the Linux kernel in versions before 5.12. The value of internal.ndata, in the KVM API, is mapped to an array index, which can be updated by a user process at anytime which could lead to an out-of-bounds write. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to d

[NVD] CVE-2021-3501 (HIGH 7.1) — A flaw was found in the Linux kernel in versions before 5.12. The value of internal.ndata, in the KVM API, is mapped to an array index, which can be updated by a user process at anytime which could lead to an out-of-bounds write. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to d

lownvdPublished 2021-05-06

CVE-2021-3501 CVSS: 7.1 HIGH Published: 2021-05-06T13:15:12.840

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel in versions before 5.12. The value of internal.ndata, in the KVM API, is mapped to an array index, which can be updated by a user process at anytime which could lead to an out-of-bounds write. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data integrity and system availability.

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Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-3501