CVE-2021-28964
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v2
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VIR risk
5.5
Description
A race condition was discovered in get_old_root in fs/btrfs/ctree.c in the Linux kernel through 5.11.8. It allows attackers to cause a denial of service (BUG) because of a lack of locking on an extent buffer before a cloning operation, aka CID-dbcc7d57bffc.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-28964
Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-28964.html
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| arch | fixed | 5.10.26-1 | |
| sles | affected | | |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 5.10.26-1 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 5.10.26-1 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 5.10.26-1 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 5.10.26-1 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 5.10.26-1 |
References
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.