CVE-2021-43395
What it is
An issue was discovered in illumos before f859e7171bb5db34321e45585839c6c3200ebb90, OmniOS Community Edition r151038, OpenIndiana Hipster 2021.04, and SmartOS 20210923. A local unprivileged user can cause a deadlock and kernel panic via crafted rename and rmdir calls on tmpfs filesystems. Oracle Solaris 10 and 11 is also affected.
At a glance
- Exploitability
- Can be exploited locally on the machine with a low-privilege account. High risk of service disruption.
- Exploit odds
- 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS).
- Fix
- A patch, advisory or fixed version is referenced. Upgrade or apply it.
Timeline
- PublishedDisclosed publicly on CVE.org and NVD
- Last updatedMost recent change to the record
Why it ranks here
- Exploited in the wild: no, CISA does not list it.
- Exploit odds: 0.3% in the next 30 days (EPSS).
- Severity: 5.5 MEDIUM (CVSS).
- Fix: a patch or advisory is linked.
Details
- Published
- Last modified
- Exploit probability
- 0.3% · EPSS, next 30 days
- Weakness
- CWE-667
- Record status
- Modified
Affected
- Illumos < 2022-01-18
- Omniosce Omnios r151038
- Openindiana hipster_2021.04
- Joyent Smartos 20210923
- Oracle Solaris 10
- Oracle Solaris 11
Attack profile CVSS 3.1 · 5.5
- Attack vector
- Local
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- None
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- High
Raw vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Is it in your code?
Hand this to your coding agent. It searches your project for the affected products and checks versions. Nothing leaves your machine.
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Fix and advisories
- https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/commit/f859e7171bb5db34321e45585839c6c3200ebb90
- https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/developer/T1c9e4f27f8c2f959/security-heads-up-illumos14424
- https://www.illumos.org/issues/14424
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.html
- https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/commit/f859e7171bb5db34321e45585839c6c3200ebb90
- https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/developer/T1c9e4f27f8c2f959/security-heads-up-illumos14424
- https://www.illumos.org/issues/14424
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.html
References
- http://www.tribblix.org/relnotes.html
- https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/blob/069654420de4aade43c63c43cd2896e66945fc8a/usr/src/uts/common/fs/tmpfs/tmp_vnops.c
- https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/blob/b3403853e80914bd0aade9b5b605da4878078173/usr/src/uts/common/fs/tmpfs/tmp_dir.c
- https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/commit/f859e7171bb5db34321e45585839c6c3200ebb90
- https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/developer/T1c9e4f27f8c2f959/security-heads-up-illumos14424
- https://jgardner100.wordpress.com/2022/01/20/security-heads-up/
- https://kebe.com/blog/?p=505
- https://www.illumos.org/issues/14424
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.html
- http://www.tribblix.org/relnotes.html
- https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/blob/069654420de4aade43c63c43cd2896e66945fc8a/usr/src/uts/common/fs/tmpfs/tmp_vnops.c
- https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/blob/b3403853e80914bd0aade9b5b605da4878078173/usr/src/uts/common/fs/tmpfs/tmp_dir.c
- https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/commit/f859e7171bb5db34321e45585839c6c3200ebb90
- https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/developer/T1c9e4f27f8c2f959/security-heads-up-illumos14424
- https://jgardner100.wordpress.com/2022/01/20/security-heads-up/
- https://kebe.com/blog/?p=505
- https://www.illumos.org/issues/14424
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.html