CVE-2021-3428
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-03-04 17:19
Modified
2024-08-03 16:53
Severity ?
Summary
A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. A denial of service problem is identified if an extent tree is corrupted in a crafted ext4 filesystem in fs/ext4/extents.c in ext4_es_cache_extent. Fabricating an integer overflow, A local attacker with a special user privilege may cause a system crash problem which can lead to an availability threat.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1972621Issue Tracking, Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-3428Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/03/17/1Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
n/akernel
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