CVE-2021-3428

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

Description

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. A denial of service problem is identified if an extent tree is corrupted in a crafted ext4 filesystem in fs/ext4/extents.c in ext4_es_cache_extent. Fabricating an integer overflow, A local attacker with a special user privilege may cause a system crash problem which can lead to an availability threat.

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-2021-3428

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3428.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archaffected
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed5.8.7-1
debian debianbullseyefixed5.8.7-1
debian debianforkyfixed5.8.7-1
debian debiansidfixed5.8.7-1
debian debiantrixiefixed5.8.7-1

References

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