CVE-2021-28964

medium

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.

References

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=dbcc7d57bffc0c8cac9dac11bec548597d59a6a5

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/PTRNPQTZ4GVS46SZ4OBXY5YDOGVPSTGQ/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/4VCKIOXCOZGXBEZMO5LGGV5MWCHO6FT3/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/T2S3I4SLRNRUQDOFYUS6IUAZMQNMPNLG/

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210430-0003/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/06/msg00019.html

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

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2021-03-22

Updated: 2022-06-30

Type: CWE-362

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 1.9

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

Impact Score: 2.9

Exploitability Score: 3.4

Severity: LOW

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.7

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Impact Score: 3.6

Exploitability Score: 1

Severity: MEDIUM