CVE Catalog

CVE-2021-45485

HighCVSS 7.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

High risk
3.59%

88th percentile - higher than 88% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the IPv6 implementation in the Linux kernel before 5.13.3, net/ipv6/output_core.c has an information leak because of certain use of a hash table which doesn't properly consider that IPv6-based attackers can typically choose among many IPv6 source addresses.

Risk Assessment

Risk of leaking sensitive kernel information, which may aid an attacker in further attacks on the system.

Recommendation

Update the Linux kernel to version 5.13.3 or later.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the IPv6 implementation in the Linux kernel before 5.13.3, net/ipv6/output_core.c has an information leak because of certain use of a hash table which, although big, doesn't properly consider that IPv6-based attackers can typically choose among many IPv6 source addresses.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS