CVE-2021-4155
Moderate
CVE-2021-4155
A data leak flaw was found in the way XFS_IOC_ALLOCSP IOCTL in the XFS filesystem allowed for size increase of files with unaligned size. A local attacker could use this flaw to leak data on the XFS filesystem otherwise not accessible to them.
Exploit probability
0.3%
Published
August 24, 2022
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-2021-4155
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A data leak flaw was found in the way XFS_IOC_ALLOCSP IOCTL in the XFS filesystem allowed for size increase of files with unaligned size. A local attacker could use this flaw to leak data on the XFS filesystem otherwise not accessible to them.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-4155
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2034813
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=983d8e60f50806f90534cc5373d0ce867e5aaf79
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-4155
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/01/10/1