CVE-2021-26708
High
CVE-2021-26708
A local privilege escalation was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.10.13. Multiple race conditions in the AF_VSOCK implementation are caused by wrong locking in net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c. The race conditions were implicitly introduced in the commits that added VSOCK multi-transport support.
Exploit probability
1.6%
Published
February 5, 2021
Required by
Not available
Last source change
April 16, 2026
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
Open Source Vulnerabilities
CVE-2021-26708
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A local privilege escalation was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.10.13. Multiple race conditions in the AF_VSOCK implementation are caused by wrong locking in net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c. The race conditions were implicitly introduced in the commits that added VSOCK multi-transport support.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/02/05/6
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/04/09/2
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/01/25/14
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.10.13
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c518adafa39f37858697ac9309c6cf1805581446
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210312-0008/
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/02/04/5