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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Feb 16, 2022· Updated Aug 3, 2024

CVE-2021-3753

CVE-2021-3753

Description

A race problem was seen in the vt_k_ioctl in drivers/tty/vt/vt_ioctl.c in the Linux kernel, which may cause an out of bounds read in vt as the write access to vc_mode is not protected by lock-in vt_ioctl (KDSETMDE). The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality.

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