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CVE-2021-28950

medium

Description

An issue was discovered in fs/fuse/fuse_i.h in the Linux kernel before 5.11.8. A "stall on CPU" can occur because a retry loop continually finds the same bad inode, aka CID-775c5033a0d1.

References

https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5096

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QRTPQE73ANG7D6M4L4PK5ZQDPO4Y2FVD/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FB6LUXPEIRLZH32YXWZVEZAD4ZL6SDK2/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/03/msg00012.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/06/msg00020.html

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=775c5033a0d164622d9d10dd0f0a5531639ed3ed

https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.11.8

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2021-03-20

Updated: 2024-11-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.0004