A heap buffer overflow flaw was found in IPsec ESP transformation code in net/ipv4/esp4.c and net/ipv6/esp6.c.
A heap buffer overflow flaw was found in IPsec ESP transformation code in net/ipv4/esp4.c and net/ipv6/esp6.c. This flaw allows a local attacker with a normal user privilege to overwrite kernel heap objects and may cause a local privilege escalation threat.
What happened
A heap buffer overflow flaw was found in IPsec ESP transformation code in net/ipv4/esp4.c and net/ipv6/esp6.c. This flaw allows a local attacker with a normal user privilege to overwrite kernel heap objects and may cause a local privilege escalation threat.
Does it affect you
Not enough information
No products recorded, so this cannot be matched against anything.
What to do
- Apply the vendor patch named in this advisory.
bugzilla.redhat.com - Apply the vendor patch named in this advisory.
github.com
Vendor's affected list
- rhel
- Exactly 8.0
Sources
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