CVE-2021-28950
Vulnerability Summary
Timeline
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 Metrics
- v3.1•MEDIUM•Score: 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- v2.0•LOW•Score: 2.1AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS Trends
Current EPSS score: 0.36%• Percentile: 30%
Techniques & Countermeasures
- CWE-834•Excessive Iteration
The product performs an iteration or loop without sufficiently limiting the number of times that the loop is executed.
Affected Systems
- debian•linux
< 5.10.24-1 | < 5.10.24-1 | < 5.10.24-1 | < 5.10.24-1
- ubuntu•linux
< 5.4.0-74.83
- ubuntu•linux-aws
< 5.4.0-1049.51
- ubuntu•linux-aws-5.0
all
- ubuntu•linux-aws-5.3
all
- ubuntu•linux-aws-5.4
< 5.4.0-1049.51~18.04.1
- ubuntu•linux-azure
all | < 5.4.0-1048.50
- ubuntu•linux-azure-5.3
all
- ubuntu•linux-azure-5.4
< 5.4.0-1048.50~18.04.1
- ubuntu•linux-azure-edge
all
- ubuntu•linux-bluefield
all | < 5.4.0-1012.15
- ubuntu•linux-fips
all
- ubuntu•linux-gcp
all | < 5.4.0-1044.47
- ubuntu•linux-gcp-5.3
all
- ubuntu•linux-gcp-5.4
< 5.4.0-1044.47~18.04.2
- ubuntu•linux-gcp-edge
all
- ubuntu•linux-gke
< 5.4.0-1044.46
- ubuntu•linux-gke-4.15
all
- ubuntu•linux-gke-5.4
< 5.4.0-1044.46~18.04.1
- ubuntu•linux-gkeop
< 5.4.0-1016.17
- ubuntu•linux-gkeop-5.4
< 5.4.0-1016.17~18.04.1
- ubuntu•linux-hwe
all
- ubuntu•linux-hwe-5.4
< 5.4.0-74.83~18.04.1
- ubuntu•linux-hwe-5.8
< 5.8.0-55.62~20.04.1
- ubuntu•linux-hwe-edge
all
- ubuntu•linux-intel-iot-realtime
all
- ubuntu•linux-kvm
< 5.4.0-1040.41
- ubuntu•linux-oem
all
- ubuntu•linux-oem-5.10
< 5.10.0-1021.22
- ubuntu•linux-oracle
< 5.4.0-1046.50
- ubuntu•linux-oracle-5.0
all
- ubuntu•linux-oracle-5.3
all
- ubuntu•linux-oracle-5.4
< 5.4.0-1046.50~18.04.2
- ubuntu•linux-raspi
< 5.4.0-1036.39
- ubuntu•linux-raspi-5.4
< 5.4.0-1036.39~18.04.1
- ubuntu•linux-raspi-realtime
all
- ubuntu•linux-raspi2
all
- ubuntu•linux-realtime
all
- ubuntu•linux-riscv
all
- ubuntu•linux-riscv-5.8
< 5.8.0-26.28~20.04.1
- debian•debian_linux
9.0
- fedoraproject•fedora
33 | 34
- linux•linux_kernel
< 5.11.8
References (15)
- 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
- 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/2021/06/msg00020.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/03/msg00012.html
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5096
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-28950
- https://git.kernel.org/linus/775c5033a0d164622d9d10dd0f0a5531639ed3ed
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QRTPQE73ANG7D6M4L4PK5ZQDPO4Y2FVD/
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4911-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4982-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4984-1
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-28950
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-28950