CVE-2021-43267

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    CVE-2021-43267

    Published: 2 Nov 2021Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: An issue was discovered in net/tipc/crypto.c in the Linux kernel before 5.14.16. The Transparent Inter-Process Communication (TIPC) functionality allows remote attackers to exploit insufficient validation of user-supplied sizes for the MSG_CRYPTO message type.

    References: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CVWL7HZV5T5OEKJPO2D67RMFMKBBXGGB/, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RDDEW4APTYKJK365HC2JZIVXYUV7ZRN7/, https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.14.16, https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20211125-0002/, https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/fa40d9734a57bcbfa79a280189799f76c88f7bb0, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/02/10/1

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    Availability
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