VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2021-28964

CVSS score4.7 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.27%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2021-03-22
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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.

Weakness classification

  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-362

Primary references