CVE-2021-28964

medium
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
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

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-28964

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-28964.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed5.10.26-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed5.10.26-1
debian debianbullseyefixed5.10.26-1
debian debianforkyfixed5.10.26-1
debian debiansidfixed5.10.26-1
debian debiantrixiefixed5.10.26-1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.