Security Advisory

CVE-2021-28964

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2021-03-22 07:17:34
Last updated 2024-08-03 21:55:12
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

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.