SB2021080304 - Integer overflow in Linux kernel in F5 BIG-IP and BIG-IQ Centralized Management
Published: August 3, 2021 Updated: August 9, 2022
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Integer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-33909)
The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to integer overflow during size_t-to-int conversion when creating, mounting, and deleting a deep directory structure whose total path length exceeds 1GB. An unprivileged local user can write up to 10-byte string to an offset of exactly -2GB-10B below the beginning of a vmalloc()ated kernel buffer.
Successful exploitation of vulnerability may allow an attacker to exploit the our-of-bounds write vulnerability to execute arbitrary code with root privileges.
Remediation
Cybersecurity Help is not aware of any official remediation provided by the vendor.