cve-2021-20321
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-02-18 17:50
Modified
2024-08-03 17:37
Severity ?
Summary
A race condition accessing file object in the Linux kernel OverlayFS subsystem was found in the way users do rename in specific way with OverlayFS. A local user could use this flaw to crash the system.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2013242Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/03/msg00012.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lore.kernel.org/all/20211011134508.748956131%40linuxfoundation.org/
secalert@redhat.comhttps://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5096Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2013242Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/03/msg00012.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lore.kernel.org/all/20211011134508.748956131%40linuxfoundation.org/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5096Third Party Advisory
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