vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2021-38199: kernel: incorrect connection-setup ordering allows operators of remote NFSv4 servers to cause a DoS

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Aug 8, 2021
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

Description

fs/nfs/nfs4client.c in the Linux kernel before 5.13.4 has incorrect connection-setup ordering, which allows operators of remote NFSv4 servers to cause a denial of service (hanging of mounts) by arranging for those servers to be unreachable during trunking detection.

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
Title
NEW

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