Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2021-28951  

An issue was discovered in fs/io_uring.c in the Linux kernel through 5.11.8. It allows attackers to cause a denial of service (deadlock) because exit may be waiting to park a SQPOLL thread, but concurrently that SQPOLL thread is waiting for a signal to start, aka CID-3ebba796fa25.

Severity Low

Remote No

Type Denial of service

Description

An issue was discovered in fs/io_uring.c in the Linux kernel through 5.11.8. It allows attackers to cause a denial of service (deadlock) because exit may be waiting to park a SQPOLL thread, but concurrently that SQPOLL thread is waiting for a signal to start, aka CID-3ebba796fa25.

AVG-1719 linux-lts 5.10.25-1 Medium Vulnerable

AVG-1718 linux-zen 5.11.8.zen1-1 Medium Vulnerable

AVG-1717 linux-hardened 5.11.7.hardened1-1 Medium Vulnerable

AVG-1716 linux 5.11.8.arch4-1 Medium Vulnerable

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=3ebba796fa251d042be42b929a2d916ee5c34a49