cve/2021/CVE-2021-35039.md

CVE-2021-35039

Description

kernel/module.c in the Linux kernel before 5.12.14 mishandles Signature Verification, aka CID-0c18f29aae7c. Without CONFIG_MODULE_SIG, verification that a kernel module is signed, for loading via init_module, does not occur for a module.sig_enforce=1 command-line argument.

POC

Reference

• https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.12.14
• https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0c18f29aae7ce3dadd26d8ee3505d07cc982df75

Github

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