Security Advisory

CVE-2021-28951

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2021-03-20 19:53:46
Last updated 2024-08-03 21:55:12
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

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.