| Description |
A local privilege escalation vulnerability has been found in the Linux kernel.
Chaitin Security Research Lab discovered that xfrm_replay_verify_len(), as called by xfrm_new_ae(), did not verify that the user-specified replay_window was within the replay state buffer. This allowed for out-of-bounds reads and writes of kernel memory. Chaitin Security showed that this can lead to local privilege escalation by using user namespaces in order to configure XFRM.
XFRM configuration requires CAP_NET_ADMIN so this issue is mitigated in kernels which do not enable user namespaces by default. |