CVE-2021-28950Excessive Iteration in Kernel

Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
OSV7.8OSV6.5OSV4.4
EPSS
0.0%
top 92.58%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedMar 20
Latest updateFeb 14

Description

An issue was discovered in fs/fuse/fuse_i.h in the Linux kernel before 5.11.8. A "stall on CPU" can occur because a retry loop continually finds the same bad inode, aka CID-775c5033a0d1.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages7 packages

NVDlinux/linux_kernel< 5.10.6+1
Debianlinux/linux_kernel< 5.10.24-1+7
Ubuntulinux/linux_kernel< 5.4.0-74.83
debiandebian/linux< linux 5.10.9-1 (bookworm)+1

Also affects: Debian Linux 10.0, 9.0, Fedora 33, 34

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

7
GHSA
GHSA-phvx-v9j2-6wfr: An issue was discovered in the FUSE filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel before 52022-05-24
GHSA
GHSA-chvf-mx8g-hjh2: An issue was discovered in fs/fuse/fuse_i2022-05-24
OSV
linux, linux-aws, linux-azure, linux-gcp, linux-hwe-5.8, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-raspi vulnerabilities2021-06-08
OSV
linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.4, linux-azure, linux-azure-5.4, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.4, linux-gke, linux-gke-5.4, linux-gkeop, linux-gkeop-5.4, linux-hwe-5.4, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-5.2021-06-08
OSV
CVE-2020-36322: An issue was discovered in the FUSE filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel before 52021-04-14

📋Vendor Advisories

8
Palo Alto
PAN-SA-2024-0001 Informational Bulletin: Impact of OSS CVEs in PAN-OS2024-02-14
Ubuntu
Linux kernel vulnerabilities2021-06-08
Ubuntu
Linux kernel (OEM) vulnerabilities2021-04-13
Microsoft
An issue was discovered in fs/fuse/fuse_i.h in the Linux kernel before 5.11.8. A "stall on CPU" can occur because a retry loop continually finds the same bad inode aka CID-775c5033a0d1.2021-03-09
Red Hat
kernel: fuse: stall on CPU can occur because a retry loop continually finds the same bad inode2021-03-04
CVE-2021-28950 — Excessive Iteration in Linux Kernel | cvebase