Race Condition Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,5.13.14)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (17th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3004815
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed3 Sept 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 3 Sep 2021

CVE-2021-40490  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-362  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 5.13.14 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Race Condition. A race condition was discovered in ext4_write_inline_data_end in fs/ext4/inline.c in the ext4 subsystem in the Linux kernel through 5.13.13.

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