vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2021-45868: linux -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Mar 18, 2022
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

In the Linux kernel before 5.15.3, fs/quota/quota_tree.c does not validate the block number in the quota tree (on disk). This can, for example, lead to a kernel/locking/rwsem.c use-after-free if there is a corrupted quota file.

Solution

debian-upgrade-linux
Title
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