Vulnerability CVE-2021-4218


Published: 2022-08-24

Description:
A flaw was found in the Linux kernel??s implementation of reading the SVC RDMA counters. Reading the counter sysctl panics the system. This flaw allows a local attacker with local access to cause a denial of service while the system reboots. The issue is specific to CentOS/RHEL.

 References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-4218
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2048359
https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=18395

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