CVE-2021-29264 Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,5.11.11)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.1% (30th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3006683
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed26 Mar 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 26 Mar 2021

CVE-2021-29264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 5.11.11 or higher.

Overview

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.11.10. drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c in the Freescale Gianfar Ethernet driver allows attackers to cause a system crash because a negative fragment size is calculated in situations involving an rx queue overrun when jumbo packets are used and NAPI is enabled, aka CID-d8861bab48b6.

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