CVE-2021-28950

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel < 5.11.8 - Denial of Service via FUSE Bad Inode Retry Loop

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (7)

Core 7
Core References
Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.11.8
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/06/msg00020.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/03/msg00012.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5096

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0036
EPSS Percentile 27.6%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-834
Status published
Products (4)
debian/debian_linux 9.0
fedoraproject/fedora 33
fedoraproject/fedora 34
linux/linux_kernel < 5.11.8
Published Mar 20, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026