Race Condition Affecting kernel-default-devel package, versions <5.3.18-59.5.2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (16th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES153-KERNELDEFAULTDEVEL-2681832
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed15 Jun 2021

Introduced: 15 Jun 2021

CVE-2021-28964  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-362  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.3 kernel-default-devel to version 5.3.18-59.5.2 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-default-devel package and not the kernel-default-devel package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.3 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1