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CentOS Linux: CVE-2021-28950: Moderate: kernel-rt security and bug fix update (Multiple Advisories)

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CentOS Linux: CVE-2021-28950: Moderate: kernel-rt security and bug fix update (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
03/20/2021
Created
11/11/2021
Added
11/10/2021
Modified
05/25/2023

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.

Solution(s)

  • centos-upgrade-kernel
  • centos-upgrade-kernel-rt

References

  • DSA-5096
  • CVE-2021-28950

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