CVE-2021-29264

medium
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
5.5

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.11.10. drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c in the Freescale Gianfar Ethernet driver allows attackers to cause a system crash because a negative fragment size is calculated in situations involving an rx queue overrun when jumbo packets are used and NAPI is enabled, aka CID-d8861bab48b6.

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-2021-29264

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-29264.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed5.10.27-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed5.10.28-1
debian debianbullseyefixed5.10.28-1
debian debianforkyfixed5.10.28-1
debian debiansidfixed5.10.28-1
debian debiantrixiefixed5.10.28-1

References

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