Medium

Kernel: security regression for cve-2018-13405

Type: advisorySource: Official CVE List1 source record

A vulnerability was found in the fs/inode.c:inode_init_owner() function logic of the LInux kernel that allows local users to create files for the XFS file-system with an unintended group ownership and with group execution and SGID permission bits set, in a scenario where a directory is SGID and belongs to a certain group and is writable by a user who is not a member of this group. This can lead to excessive permissions granted in case when they should not. This vulnerability is similar to the previous CVE-2018-13405 and adds the missed fix for the XFS.

Announced 24 Aug 2022Group revision 1

Original source ↗

CVE-2021-4037

Primary source · Revision 1

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Security context

Source reference: cve:CVE-2021-4037

kernel

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update Support

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update Support

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

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Structured affected-version data

Original package identities and version rules from this source.

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Related CVEs: CVE-2021-4037
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Publisher severity

medium

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Event: #21653 · Revision 1
Added to Heist Feed: Sun, 25 Oct 2026 05:48:27 GMT
Publisher date: Wed, 24 Aug 2022 00:00:00 GMT

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Revision history

25 Oct 2026CVE-2021-4037 · Revision 1Source updated