CVE-2021-3483

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

Description

A flaw was found in the Nosy driver in the Linux kernel. This issue allows a device to be inserted twice into a doubly-linked list, leading to a use-after-free when one of these devices is removed. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability. Versions before kernel 5.12-rc6 are affected

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-2021-3483

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3483.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed5.11.13.hardened1-1
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.