CVE-2021-29264

medium

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.

References

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=d8861bab48b6c1fc3cdbcab8ff9d1eaea43afe7f

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

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2021-03-26

Updated: 2022-05-27

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.7

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

Impact Score: 6.9

Exploitability Score: 3.4

Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

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

Impact Score: 3.6

Exploitability Score: 1.8

Severity: MEDIUM