Vulnerability in virtual Network closed

Mar 08, 2021 – ELinOS, Linux, Security

A vulnerability (CVE-2021-26708) in the virtual networking socket stack has been closed. The flaw has been has been scored as high and is present since the kernel series 4.18. The error is due to a race condition when locking a socket and may cause local privilege escalation. It is now fixed since kernel 5.10.12.

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