CVE-2021-28950

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 31
Modified
Published: 20 Mar 2021, 19:55
Last modified:03 Aug 2024, 21:55

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
low
22/100
CVSS Score
5.5 MEDIUM
v3.1 (nvd)
EPSS Score
0.03% LOW
0% probability 0.00%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

20 Mar 2021, 19:55
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
03 Aug 2024, 21:55
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

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: 0.03%• Percentile: 8%

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•debian_linux

    9.0

  • fedoraproject•fedora

    33 | 34

  • linux•linux_kernel

    < 5.11.8

References (7)