CVE-2021-28950 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.11.8 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=775c5033a0d164622d9d10dd0f0a5531639ed3ed https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QRTPQE73ANG7D6M4L4PK5ZQDPO4Y2FVD/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FB6LUXPEIRLZH32YXWZVEZAD4ZL6SDK2/ https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/06/msg00020.html https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5096 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/03/msg00012.html

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

5.5