CVE-2021-3428

EPSS 0.3%CWE-190

Vexday Risk Score

3Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Track

No exploitation signal → monitor

CVSS —EPSS 0.3%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

04 Mar 2022Published on NVD

Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.

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.

Affected products

n/a · kernel

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References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1972621 https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-3428 https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/03/17/1