{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2021-11-25T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: possible leak or coruption of data residing on hugetlbfs",
    "id" : "2025726",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2025726"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "5.1",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-459",
  "details" : [ "A memory leak flaw in the Linux kernel's hugetlbfs memory usage was found in the way the user maps some regions of memory twice using shmget() which are aligned to PUD alignment with the fault of some of the memory pages. A local user could use this flaw to get unauthorized access to some data.", "A memory leak flaw in the Linux kernel's hugetlbfs memory usage was found in the way the user maps some regions of memory twice using shmget() which are aligned to PUD alignment with the fault of some of the memory pages. A local user could use this flaw to get unauthorized access to some data." ],
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "release_date" : "2022-05-10T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2022:1975",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::nfv",
    "package" : "kernel-rt-0:4.18.0-372.9.1.rt7.166.el8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "release_date" : "2022-05-10T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2022:1988",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8",
    "package" : "kernel-0:4.18.0-372.9.1.el8"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "kernel-alt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-4002\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-4002\nhttps://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=13e4ad2ce8df6e058ef482a31fdd81c725b0f7ea\nhttps://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=a4a118f2eead1d6c49e00765de89878288d4b890\nhttps://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/11/25/1" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2021-4002",
  "mitigation" : {
    "value" : "Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options don't meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base, or stability.",
    "lang" : "en:us"
  },
  "csaw" : false
}