MEDIUM 4.4 Microsoft

CVE-2021-27363

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.11.3. A kernel pointer leak can be used to determine the address of the iscsi_transport structure. When an iSCSI transport is registered with the iSCSI subsystem the transport's handle is available to unprivileged users via the sysfs file system at /sys/class/iscsi_transport/$TRANSPORT_NAME/handle. When read the show_transport_handle function (in drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_iscsi.c) is called which leaks the handle. This handle is actually the pointer to an iscsi_transport struct in the kernel module's global variables.

Microsoft Security Update 2021-Mar: An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.11.3. A kernel pointer leak can be used to determine the address of the iscsi_transport structure. When an iSCSI transport is registered with the iSCSI subsystem the transport's handle is available to unprivileged users via the sysfs file system at /sys/class/iscsi_transport/$TRANSPORT_NAME/handle. When read the show_transport_handle function (in drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_iscsi.c) is called which leaks the handle. This handle is actually the pointer to an iscsi_transport struct in the kernel module's global variables.

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Published: 2021-03-09 · Source: Microsoft · Feed updated: 2026-08-20
This medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 4.4 was published on 2021-03-09 via Microsoft. Affected: cbl2 kernel 5.10.78.1-1 on CBL Mariner 2.0.
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