A memory leak vulnerability was found in the Linux kernels eBPF for the Simulated networking device driver in the way user uses BPF for the device such that function nsim_map_alloc_elem being called. A local user could use this flaw to get unauthorized access to some data.
The product does not sufficiently track and release allocated memory after it has been used, which slowly consumes remaining memory.
Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
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Linux_kernel | Linux | * | 5.16 (excluding) |
Linux_kernel | Linux | 5.16 (including) | 5.16 (including) |
Linux_kernel | Linux | 5.16-rc1 (including) | 5.16-rc1 (including) |
Linux_kernel | Linux | 5.16-rc2 (including) | 5.16-rc2 (including) |
Linux_kernel | Linux | 5.16-rc3 (including) | 5.16-rc3 (including) |
Linux_kernel | Linux | 5.16-rc4 (including) | 5.16-rc4 (including) |
Linux_kernel | Linux | 5.16-rc5 (including) | 5.16-rc5 (including) |