CVE-2021-33656

high

Published 2023-05-16 · Modified 2023-05-16

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

8.0

Description

When setting font with malicous data by ioctl cmd PIO_FONT,kernel will write memory out of bounds.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

AlmaLinux Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
8	Fixed	`kernel-rt-debug-core-4.18.0-477.10.1.rt7.274.el8_8.x86_64.rpm`

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`5.14.6-1`
sid	Fixed	`5.14.6-1`
forky	Fixed	`5.14.6-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`5.10.127-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`5.14.6-1`

Red Hat Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
8	Fixed	—

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.