vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2021-3428: integer overflow in ext4_es_cache_extent (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Mar 4, 2022
Added
Aug 2, 2023
Modified
Mar 13, 2024

Description

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. A denial of service problem is identified if an extent tree is corrupted in a crafted ext4 filesystem in fs/ext4/extents.c in ext4_es_cache_extent. Fabricating an integer overflow, A local attacker with a special user privilege may cause a system crash problem which can lead to an availability threat.

Solution(s)

redhat-upgrade-kernelredhat-upgrade-kernel-rt
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