CVE-2021-28951

Public on 2021-03-20
Modified on 2023-04-03
Description
An issue was discovered in fs/io_uring.c in the Linux kernel through 5.11.8. It allows attackers to cause a denial of service (deadlock) because exit may be waiting to park a SQPOLL thread, but concurrently that SQPOLL thread is waiting for a signal to start, aka CID-3ebba796fa25.
Severity
Medium severity
Medium
CVSS v3 Base Score
5.5
See breakdown

Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
Amazon Linux 1 kernel Not Affected
Amazon Linux 2 - Kernel-5.10 Extra kernel 2023-04-13 ALAS2KERNEL-5.10-2023-030 Fixed
Amazon Linux 2 - Kernel-5.15 Extra kernel 2023-06-29 ALAS2KERNEL-5.15-2023-023 Fixed
Amazon Linux 2023 kernel Not Affected
Amazon Linux 2 - Core kernel-4.14 Pending Fix
Amazon Linux 2 - Core kernel-5.10 kernel-5.15 Pending Fix
Amazon Linux 2023 kernel-5.15 Pending Fix
Amazon Linux 2 - Core kernel-5.4 Pending Fix

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD CVSSv3 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD CVSSv2 4.9 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C