CVE-2021-29264

Severity

55%

Complexity

18%

Confidentiality

60%

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.11.10. drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c in the Freescale Gianfar Ethernet driver allows attackers to cause a system crash because a negative fragment size is calculated in situations involving an rx queue overrun when jumbo packets are used and NAPI is enabled, aka CID-d8861bab48b6.

CVSS 3.1 Base Score 5.5. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.7. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C).

Overview

First reported 3 years ago

2021-03-26 22:15:00

Last updated 3 years ago

2021-06-23 02:15:00

Affected Software

Linux Kernel

References

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=d8861bab48b6c1fc3cdbcab8ff9d1eaea43afe7f

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=d8861bab48b6c1fc3cdbcab8ff9d1eaea43afe7f

Patch, Vendor Advisory

[debian-lts-announce] 20210623 [SECURITY] [DLA 2690-1] linux-4.19 security update

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