Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,5.11.9)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.28% (20th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3006450
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed20 Mar 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 20 Mar 2021

CVE-2021-28951  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 5.11.9 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). An issue was discovered in fs/io_uring.c in the Linux kernel through 5.11.8. It allows attackers to cause a denial of service (deadlock) because exit may be waiting to park a SQPOLL thread, but concurrently that SQPOLL thread is waiting for a signal to start, aka CID-3ebba796fa25.

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