cve-2021-28951
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-03-20 19:53
Modified
2024-08-03 21:55
Severity ?
Summary
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.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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